State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “even though harshly and caustically expressed, would likely not have warranted the hearing justice's recusal had he expressed them after he had fairly conducted the violation hearing and then adjudged defendant to be a violator of his probation or had he expressed them in the context of determining how much of defendant's suspended sentence to remove.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tracey Barros v. State of Rhode Island

2. “[t]he party seeking recusal bears the burden of establishing that 'the judicial officer possesses a personal bias or prejudice by reason of a preconceived or settled opinion of a character calculated to impair his [or her] impartiality seriously and to sway his [or her] judgment.'”

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

3. “scrutinize closely whatever is asserted to have disclosed prejudice of a character and in such degree as to work a disqualification.”

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