Hull’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2025
11 district ·
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 Liteky et al United States · Shepherd v. American Broadcasting Companies · Aoude v. Mobil Oil Corp. · Wyle v. R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. · Halaco Engineering Co. v. Costle
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[J]udging is all about making judgments, obviously. And human- nature being what it is, those tasked with making some of the hardest calls imaginable may, quite understandably, develop strong feelings about the cases they work on. So while they must avoid even the appearance of partiality, even when bias or prejudice does not exist, we do not expect trial judges to act like unemotional cyborgs of sci-fi fame. That is why problems with the views they form in slogging through cases typically do not provide ‘a sound basis either for required recusal or for directing that a different judge be assigned on remand.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a party has sentiently set in motion some unconscionable scheme calculated to interfere with the judicial system’s ability impartially to adjudicate a matter by ... unfairly hampering the presentation of the opposing party’s claim or defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a community property concept recognized under the law of Puerto Rico”
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.