Bonelli v. Bonelli’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Abington Ltd. Partnership v. Heublein (1998), Kinard v. Kinard (1998)
29 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Potashnick v. Port City Construction Co. · Cameron v. Cameron · Papa v. New Haven Federation of Teachers · Patzner v. Burkett
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to assess disqualification in the context of a prior cocounsel relationship, the important factors to be considered are the closeness of the cocounsel relationship, the possibility of any financial benefit to the judge resulting from the cocounsel association, the existence of any social or personal relationship between the trial judge and counsel, and the amount of time that has elapsed after termination of the cocounsel relationship.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]isqualification is not necessarily required even when his former law partner appears before a trial judge. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]xamination of the totality of the circumstances. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.