United States v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1990
4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 26 U.S.C. § 7212 · 28 U.S.C. § 144
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Berger v. United States · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] claim of bias or prejudice based on judicial knowledge gained from prior hearings or other cases is not sufficient grounds for disqualification of a judge whether it be from prior judicial exposure to the defendant or judicial rulings adverse to the defendant in the same or different cases.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“... an attitude arising from extrajudicial sources that results “in an opinion on the merits on the basis other than what the judge learned from his participation in the case ..., or results in an “attitude toward [the] petitioner that is significantly different from and more particularized than the normal, general feelings of society at large against convicted wrongdoers.” (Citations omitted.) United States v. Sinclair, 424 F.Supp. at 718 .”
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.