In re Pryor’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . For no judge, and no court, high or low, is beyond the reach of public and individual criticism. After a case is disposed of, a court or judge has no power to compel the public, or any individual thereof, attorney or otherwise, to consider his rulings correct, his conduct proper, or even his integrity free from stain, or to punish for contempt any mere criticism or animadversion thereon, no matter how severe or unjust. . . . “We remark again, that a judge will generally and wisely pass unnoticed any mere hasty and unguarded expression of passion, or at least pass it with simply a reproof. It is so that, in every case where a judge decides for one party, he decides against another; and ofttimes both parties are beforehand equally confident and sanguine. The disappointment therefore is great, and it is not in human nature that there should be other than bitter feeling, which often reaches to the judge as the cause of the supposed wrong. A judge therefore ought to be patient, and tolerant of everything which appears but the momentary outbreak of disappointment. . . .” (p. 76.)”

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

2. ““It will be borne in mind that the remarks we have made apply only while the matters which give rise to the “words or acts of the attorney arc pending and undetermined. Other considerations apply after the matters have finally been determined, the orders signed, or the judgment entered. For no judge, and no court, high or low, is beyond the reach of public and individual criticism. After a case is disposed of, a court or judge has no power to compel the public, or any individual thereof, attorney or otherwise, to consider his rulings correct, his conduct proper, or even his integrity free from stain, or to punish for contempt any mere criticism or animadversion thereon, no matter how severe or unjust.””

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

3. ““We remark secondly, that an attorney is under special obligations to be considerate and respectful in his conduct and communications to a judge; He is an officer of the court, and it is therefore his duty to uphold its honor and dignity.” (p. 74.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re the Contempt of Hanson