Parker v. Shecut’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Code of Judicial Conduct requires a judge to ‘disqualify himself in a proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. Canon 3(C)(1) of the Code of Judicial Conduct, Rule 501, SCACR. A judge must exercise sound judicial discretion in determining whether his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.’ Absent evidence of judicial prejudice, a judge’s failure to disqualify himself will not be reversed on appeal. It is not enough for a party seeking disqualification to simply allege bias. The party must show some evidence of bias. Furthermore, the alleged bias must be personal, as distinguished from judicial, in nature.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Cheatham · Arnal v. Arnal

2. “The failure to prove any one of these elements is fatal to the claim. Generally, the representation must relate to a pres ent or pre-existing fact rather than a statement of future events or an unfulfilled promise. An exception to the general rule is recognized for unfulfilled promises which were made by a party who never intended to fulfill the promise and only made it to induce the performance of another party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brown Ex Rel. Estate of Brown v. Stewart