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In Re Pelkey’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Matter of Addams · In Re Goffe · Matter of Shorter · In Re Kennedy · In Re Slattery

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “reflect[ing] a continuing and pervasive indifference to the obligations of honesty in the judicial system and to the duty of loyalty to the interests of his clients”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “in which the attorney was in a position of trust” and”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.