Allan v. Allan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An impartial, fair-minded judge is aware of his qualifications to try a cause coming on before the trial begins. If he is disqualified by reason of bias and prejudice arising from his relationship to the parties from his having been counsel in the case before he became judge, or because he is a witness in the case, no reason ought to prompt him to act as judge. The parties and the public alike do not sanction his action in such circumstances because the existence of either relation imports bias and prejudice. In such event (which we sincerely trust will never arise in this state), the judge is presumed to be disqualified as a fact, and if he acts thereafter, his acts are the acts of a disqualified person, having been so disqualified before the trial commenced as a fact, without regard to the time of filing the application and affidavit supporting it, setting forth the relation from which bias and prejudice is conclusively presumed in such case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Conkling v. Crosby

2. “* * * that the testimony of two witnesses be now taken, the same to be read at trial of the cause as depositions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 4 Ariz. App. 258 - State v. Neil