O'Bannon’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2016
2 district · 4 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 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Easterwood · Hall v. Small Business Administration · 960 F. Supp. 1411 - O'Bannon Ex Rel. O'Bannon v. Union Pacific Railroad · Elrod v. Burlington Northern Railroad
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Would the average person, knowing the facts alleged by the parties seeking disqualification, question the Judge's impartiality, and, if so, would the question be reasonable?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chris Veneklase
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.