In Re Guberman’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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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.

1. “[W]hile the decision to suspend an attorney for misconduct turns largely on the determination of historical facts, the decision to impose a fitness requirement turns on a partly subjective, predictive evaluation of the attorney's character and ability.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Brigitte L. Adams

2. “a 'foolish and imprudent' response to a particular pressure, and developed into misconduct that snowballed as respondent made effort after effort to conceal his initial lie to his supervisor about having filed an appeal on behalf of the client”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Harry Tun

3. “where the misconduct involved a response to the 'pressure of the moment' or a situation unlikely to be repeated, we are less likely to impose a condition on the respondent's resumption of practice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Harry Tun