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disbarment proceedings

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

adversary proceedings of a quasi-criminal nature

How often courts cite the case defining “disbarment proceedings”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “disbarment proceedings” — 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.