Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “On the separate issue of whether, given the circumstances, reasonable people would question the judge's ability to be fair, the proper standard of review is de novo-because 'reasonable appearance of bias' is assessed under an objective standard.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kinnan v. Sitka Counseling · Sagers v. Sackinger

2. “. But as we did in Phillips, we will decide Crawford's case under the assumption that Alaska law mandates disqualification of a judge when the cireumstances give rise to a reasonable appearance of bias, even when there is no proof that the judge is actually biased. As to what sort of appearance of bias will require a judge's disqualification, we note that the Comment to Alaska Judicial Canon 2A declares that the test is”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crawford v. State

3. “[slome-times one must look beyond what a court says it is doing and, instead, focus on what the court actually is doing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Meyer v. State