Marvin Spires v. James L. Bottorff’s Empirical Analysis
317 F.2d 273 · 1963
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 1988 · most notably William J. Bauers, Jr. v. Herbert T. Heisel, Jr (1966), Crowder v. Lash (1982)
35 federal appellate · 1 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 Screws v. United States · United States v. Classic · Patterson v. Medberry · Roberts v. United States District Court · Mark O. Hatfield, Governor of the State of Oregon v. Paul R. Bailleaux
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He did not, by disqualifying himself, become any less a judge and without the state authority he had, he could not have been as effective in interfering, as charged, with petitioner’s right to an orderly and fair hearing. If the disqualification rendered him immune from overstepping his authority, ‘the words “under color of any law” were hardly apt words to express the idea.’ Screws v. United States, 325 U.S. 91 , 111 [ 65 S.Ct. 1031 , 89 L.Ed. 1495 ] (1944).” 317 F.2d at 274-275 .”
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.