Terrazas v. Slagle’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 372 · 28 U.S.C. § 453
Relies on Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg · The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana v. Harry L. Laws Company, Inc. · Wolfson v. Palmieri · United States v. Salerno · Taylor v. E O'Grady T
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that if a law clerk testifies as a witness in a case before his judge, the judge must disqualify himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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