In Re James Finkelstein’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2019
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · In the Matter of John Ruffalo Jr · Marek v. Chesny · Evans v. Jeff D. Ex Rel. Johnson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'not deprive an attorney of the opportunity to practice his profession on the basis of a determination after the fact that conduct is unethical if responsible attorneys would differ in appraising the propriety of that conduct.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e share[d] the disapproval of the district court caused by Finkelstein's letter to [corporate counsel]. It not only 'exhibited an unlawyerlike rudeness' but it also displayed a gross misunderstanding of true professionalism.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“transcendental code of conduct ... that ... existed only in the subjective opinion of the court, of which [the attorney] had no notice, and [that] was the sole basis of the sanction administered after the conduct had occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.