State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Judges must ascertain whether they, in fact, come within any of the categories requiring disqualification in the Code of Judicial Conduct and whether there is any other basis upon which their impartiality may reasonably be questioned. At the same time judges must not allow litigants to utilize the process of a recu-sal motion to delay or thwart the judicial proceedings where there is no reasonable basis for the motion and it is obvious on its face that it was intended to halt or delay the litigation. A judge is as much obliged not to recuse himself when it is not called for as he is obliged to when it is.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re J.R. Jr.

2. “Error in the citation of a statute or its omission shall not be grounds for the ... reversal of a conviction if the error or omission did not mislead the defendant to the defendant’s prejudice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of Maine v. Shain Stanley