Schupper v. People’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2020
10 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. § 455
Relies on Liteky et al United States · Bibby v. United States · Kelly v. Robinson · Page v. Clark · United States v. Murphy
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Colorado law offers three interrelated guideposts for judicial disqualification: Colorado Rule of Criminal Procedure 21(b), section 16-6-201 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, and Canon 8 of the Colorado Code of Judicial Conduct. Rule 21(b) and section 16-6-201 both provide that a judge should disqualify himself upon a showing that he "is in any way interested or prejudiced with respect to the case, the parties, or counsel." Canon 3 of the Code of Judicial Conduct is slightly more expansive, stating: A judge should disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge's partiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where ... [a] judge has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party ... [(or] a lawyer with whom the judge previously practiced law served during such association as a lawyer concerning the matter....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he mere existence of a relationshipwhether personal or professionalis insufficient grounds for disqualification. Rather, it is the closeness of the relationship and its bearing on the underlying case that determines whether disqualification is necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People Ex Rel. Ag“a judge formerly employed by a governmental agency ... should disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding if the judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned because of such association.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Owens
How this case has been treated — in progress
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