Hurd v. Letts’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.2d 121 · 1945
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 1983 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), Alfredo G. Parrish, Etc. v. Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar, Etc., Defendants- Alabama Black Lawyers Association v. Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar, Etc., Defendants (1975)
35 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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 Berger v. United States · Ex parte American Steel Barrel Co. · Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. v. Molyneaux
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing is now better established than the rule that a sufficient affidavit under the statute must state facts and reasons which tend to show personal bias and prejudice regarding the justiciable matter pending and must give support to the charge of a bent of mind that may prevent or impede impartiality of judgment. Berger v. United States, 255 U.S. 22 , 33, 41 S.Ct. 230 , 65 L.Ed. 481 . “Accordingly, the question in all such cases is whether the affidavit asserts facts from which a sane and reasonable mind might fairly infer personal bias or prejudice on the part of the judge. * * * ” 7 (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision 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.