People v. Varallo’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 202 W. Va. 556 - Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Kupec (1998), In Re Cleland (2000)
118 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 Withrow v. Larkin · In Re Wilson · Matter of Noonan · Tweedy v. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n · State v. Turner
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consists simply of a lawyer taking a client's money entrusted to him, knowing that it is the client's money and knowing that the client has not authorized the taking.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . For example, depositing client funds into a trust account with a negative balance, if done only negligently, would be a technical rather than knowing conversion of client funds.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Waters · In re Haines“[n]o member of the hearing board or hearing panel can exercise investigative or prosecutorial functions because of the separation between the inquiry panel and hearing panel”
3 later decisions 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.