disbarment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 390 U.S. 544 - In the Matter of John Ruffalo Jr · 1968Most cited · 2,075 citing opinions
Disbarment, designed to protect the public, is a punishment or penalty imposed on the lawyer.
How often courts cite the case defining “disbarment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “disbarment” — 2,043 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.