Bell v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.3d 997 · 2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Liteky et al United States · Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc. · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Lovett v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An opinion on the merits of the case, resulting from a judge's experience with the case in the course of his or her official duties, is not sufficient to justify § 455 recusal unless it demonstrates a deep-seated favoritism or antagonism that would make fair judgment impossible. Such is manifestly not the case here, where the district judge both had substantial experience with the case and expressed an opinion clearly justified by the evidence presented at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hewitt v. Mccrary“would try the instant case as many times as necessary until the jury reached a verdict of at least $9,000.00,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hewitt v. Mccrary
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.