In Re Heard’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2024
1 federal appellate · 22 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 In the Matter of John Ruffalo Jr · Mueller v. Allen · 115 Wash. 2d 60 - State v. Camarillo · 117 Wash. 2d 720 - Haley v. Medical Disciplinary Board · 42 Wash. 2d 316 - McLeod v. Grant County School District No. 128
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lawyer may be subjected to the disciplinary sanctions or actions set forth in these rules for any of the following: (a) The commission of any act involving moral turpitude, dishonesty, or corruption, or any unjustified act of assault or other act which reflects disregard for the rule of law, whether the same be committed in the course of his or her conduct as a lawyer, or otherwise, and whether the same constitutes a felony or misdemeanor or not ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`blatantly misuse[] his professional status to exploit [a] client's vulnerability.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“by negotiating a settlement agreement with worthless interests included, advising his client to sign it, and then keeping all the cash proceeds of the settlement without the client's consent or without rendering the client a final accounting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Halverson
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.