In re Cameron’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 22 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Neither the Constitution nor the statutory provision covers in terms the case of a judge who has already decided the controversy before he has heard it. We are of the opinion, however, that such a case falls within the meaning of both; that is, of the provision in each that no judge shall preside in any case in which he may have been of counsel, or in which he may have presided in any inferior court. The purpose of these two provisions was to guard against prejudgment of the controversy. It was necessarily supposed, as the basis of these provisions, that where a judge had been of counsel, he had already made up his mind as to the merits of the case; equally where he had presided in the trial of the case in the inferior court, and had decided it, or had taken part in the decision of it.” [Pages 657, 658, 126 Tenn., p. 76 of 151 S.W.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leighton v. Henderson

2. “No Judge of the Supreme or Inferior Courts shall preside on the trial of any cause in the event of which he [or she] may be interested, or where either of the parties shall be connected with him [or her] by affinity of consanguinity, within such degrees as may be prescribed by law, or in which he [or she] may have been of counsel, or in which he [or she] may have presided in any inferior Court, except by consent of all the parties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kinard v. Kinard