In re Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2016
17 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 United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · In Re Inquiry Concerning a Judge No. 53 Peoples · In Re Inquiry Concerning Judge Nowell · In Re Inquiry Concerning Judge Hardy · In re Greene
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon recommendation of the Commission, the Supreme Court may censure, suspend, or remove any judge for willful misconduct in office . . . or conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Belk“The Commission serves `as an arm of the Court to conduct hearings for the purpose of aiding the Supreme Court in determining whether a judge is unfit or unsuitable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Belk“judges may not be disciplined for errors of judgment or errors of law”
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.