Ross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2015
8 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
Relies on Farley v. Jester · Gross v. State · Burrows v. City of Forrest
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ Cjourt proceedings must not only be fair and impartial— they must appear to be fair and impartial. This factor is mentioned in a Comment found in 71 Michigan Law Review 538, entitled, “Disqualification of Interest of Lower Federal Court Judges: 28 U.S.C. § 455”, as follows: Another factor to be considered in a judge’s decision to disqualify is the contention that the appearance of impartiality is as important, if not more so, than actual impartiality. In 1952, Justice Frankfurter explained his disqualification in a case by stating that ‘justice should reasonably appear to be disinterested as well as be so in fact.’ The Supreme Court gave support to this view in the due process context when in Murchison Justice Black wrote for the Court: (T)o perform its high function in the best way ‘justice must satisfy the appearance of justice.’ More recently the Court set aside an arbitration award and stated that ‘(a)ny tribunal permitted by law to try cases and controversies not only must be unbiased but also must avoid even the appearance of bias.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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