People v. Paulson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2018
16 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 People v. Pierson · People v. Fager
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) a lawyer knowingly fails to perform services for a client and causes injury or potential injury to a client.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Suspension is generally appropriate when a lawyer knows or should know that he is dealing improperly with client property and causes injury or potential injury to a client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Weisbard“A lawyer shall keep a client reasonably informed about the status of a matter and promptly comply with reasonable requests for information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Weisbard
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.