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SCA Services, Inc. v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

557 F.2d 110 · 1977

Citation profile

172

cited by 172 later decisions

states following

August 2016

most recently cited

93 federal appellate · 11 district · 17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Potashnick v. Port City Construction Co. (1980), United States v. Murphy (1985)

93 federal appellate · 11 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 states

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 Tumey v. State of Ohio · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Offutt v. United States · Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak

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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“(a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. (b) He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances: ... (5) He or his spouse, or a person within the third degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse of such person: ... (ii) Is acting as a lawyer in the proceeding; (iii) Is known by the judge to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding____”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 9 Kan. App. 2d 353 - State v. Logan · State v. Logan
“[a]ny justice, judge or magistrate of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 639 F. Supp. 1229 - National Union Fire Insurance v. Continental Illinois Corp. · United States of America Ex Rel. David P. Weinberger, and David P. Weinberger, Esq., Individually v. Equifax, Inc. (Formerly Retail Credit Company)
“impartiality might reasonably be questioned”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 9 Kan. App. 2d 353 - State v. Logan · Potashnick v. Port City Construction Co.

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.