State v. Doucet’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The jurisprudence of this State is well-settled that if the allegations of the petition for the recusation of a judge are mere general statements of conclusions that the judge is prejudiced and biased against or hostile to the defendant because of personal or political reasons, or that if the petition does state facts which, if proved, would not constitute a legal ground for recusation, the judge who is sought to be recused may himself overrule the motion and need not refer it to another judge for trial." Citing numerous authorities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 326 So. 2d 820 - State v. Maduell

2. “"It is clear that this Court has plenary power under Sections 2 and 10 of Article VII of the Constitution of 1921, granting it supervisory jurisdiction over all inferior courts and that these constitutional provisions must prevail over any provisions in a legislative act that conflict therewith. It is, therefore, apparent that this Court had the constitutional power and authority to issue the writs and, therefore, they were not improvidently granted."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 58 So. 2d 298 - Twiggs v. JOURNEYMEN BARBERS, ETC.

3. ““To hold otherwise, would be to render this important right of recusation or challenge nugatory and worthless.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Savoy