Dolphin v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Sanders v. State (2003), Anderson v. State (2004)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner · Jones v. Jones · Turner v. State · Holaday v. Fraker · Miller Industries v. Caterpillar Tractor Co.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judges must refrain from presiding over cases in which they might be interested and must avoid all appearance of bias. Reel v. State, 318 Ark. 565 , 886 S.W.2d 615 (1994). However, we will not reverse a judgment on the basis of a trial judge’s decision not to disqualify unless the judge has abused her discretion. Id. To decide whether there was an abuse of discretion, we review the record to determine if any prejudice or bias was exhibited. Id. The question of bias is usually confined to the conscience of the judge. Noland v. Noland, 326 Ark. 617 , 932 S.W.2d 341 (1996). Judges are presumed to be impartial, and the party seeking disqualification has the burden of showing otherwise. Turner v. State, 325 Ark. 237 , 926 S.W.2d 843 (1996).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Skokos v. Skokos“[T]o take an oral contract out of the statute of frauds, both the making of the oral contract and its performance must be proven by clear and convincing evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.