Kirkpatrick v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Hartt v. Munobe (1993), In re Disqualification of Kate (1999)
88 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.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alleged errors of law or procedure are legal issues subject to appeal and are not grounds for disqualification”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statutory right to seek disqualification of a judge is an extraordinary remedy. A judge is presumed to follow the law and not to be biased, and the appearance of bias or prejudice must be compelling to overcome these presumptions.”
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.