48 Ala. App. 668 - Shell v. Shell’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
38 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Killingsworth v. Killingsworth · De Moville v. Merchants & Farmers Bank · 47 Ala. App. 443 - Body v. Body · Woodmen of the World v. Alford · Savage v. Savage
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The judge was expected to exercise sound discretion by refraining from trying cases where any circumstances might tend to cast doubt or suspicion on the fairness of the court. There should be no less an expectation of a fair, unbiased and coldly impartial judiciary today . . . We are clear to the conclusion that every judge should avoid sitting in a case where there is foundation for reasonable charge of interest, bias or prejudice." Id. at 673, 267 So.2d at 465 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Wallace
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.