State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Carver (1989), State v. Perkins (1984)
26 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 Taylor v. Hayes · State v. Neil · Evans v. Humphreys · 24 Ariz. App. 148 - In Re Guardianship of Styer · State v. Puckett
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 10.1, Arizona Rules of Criminal Procedure, 17 A.R.S., in effect at trial, provided: “Change of judge for cause “a. Grounds. In any criminal case the state or any defendant shall be entitled to a change of judge if a fair and impartial hearing or trial cannot be had by reason of the interest or prejudice of the assigned judge.” We have stated that the right to a fair trial is the “foundation stone upon which our present judicial system rests,” and that there is an indispensable right to trial presided over by a judge who is “impartial and free of bias or prejudice.” State v. Neil, 102 Ariz. 110, 112 , 425 P.2d 842, 844 (1967). It is the intent of our rules and statutes in the administration of justice that cases be tried by judges who are not biased or prejudiced. State v. Puckett, 92 Ariz. 407 , 377 P.2d 779 (1963). See ABA Standards Relating to the Function of the Trial Judge, Part 1.7 (Approved Draft, 1972). Canon 3(c) of the ABA Code of Judicial Conduct (as amended August 1977) states: “(1) A judge should disqualify himself in a proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where: “(a) he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding;” We have no quarrel with a judge notifying the prosecutor when he has reasonable grounds to believe that perjury has been committed. The American Bar Association’s Standards of Criminal Justic”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Emanuel“The ABA Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 3(A)(4) indicates that a judge should “... neither initiate nor consider ex parte or other communications concerning a pending or impending proceeding.” Moreover, Canon 2 mandates that a judge should avoid even the appearance of impropriety in all of his activities. [Citations omitted]____ Such a rule is a requisite to the orderly administration of justice in any judicial system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Emanuel“[T]he right to a fair trial is the `foundation stone upon which our present judicial system rests,' and ... there is an indispensable right to trial presided over by a judge who is `impartial and free of bias or prejudice.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.