Alexander v. Primerica Holdings, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
10 F.3d 155 · 1993
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably In Re: The Prudential Insurance Company Of America Sales Practices Litigation (1998), Madden v. Myers (1996)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. · Will v. United States
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“concerns not only fairness to individual litigants, but, equally important, it concerns `the public's confidence in the judiciary, which may be irreparably harmed if a case is allowed to proceed before a judge who appears to be tainted.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“justice must satisfy the appearance of justice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]ublic confidence in the judicial system mandates, at a minimum, the appearance of neutrality and impartiality in the administration of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.