Stringer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
233 F.2d 947 · 1956
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2024
10 federal appellate · 6 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 Stringer v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here may be other instances where a judge disqualifying himself could resume direction or even decide the issues. For instance, he might be mistaken as to the identity of a party. But the reason for resuming control should be more than a second reflection on the same facts which the trial judge considered originally disqualified him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doddy“[O]nce having disqualified himself for cause, on his own motion, it was incurable error for the district judge to resume full control and try the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mechanical duties of transferring the case to another judge or other essential ministerial duties short of adjudication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.