Rice v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 1114 · 1978
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Liteky et al United States (1994), In Re Diana R Beard et Als
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Fay v. Noia · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Barrett v. Zweibon · Alfredo G. Parrish, Etc. v. Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar, Etc., Defendants- Alabama Black Lawyers Association v. Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar, Etc., Defendants
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[t]he question is not whether the judge is impartial in fact. It is simply whether another, not knowing whether or not the judge is actually impartial, might reasonably question his impartiality on the basis of all the circumstances.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida by Roger D. Roberts (Power of Attorney), Surety, and George Lee Kosko · Michael Hathcock Sandy Hathcock v. Navistar International Transportation Corporation, Product Liability Advisory Council, Incorporated Lawyers for Civil Justice, Amici Curiae. Michael Hathcock Sandy Hathcock v. Arthur P. Greenfield, and Navistar International Transportation Corporation, Product Liability Advisory Council, Incorporated Lawyers for Civil Justice, Amici Curiae“To say the least, it would be unbecoming for a judge to sit in a United States Court of Appeals to participate in the determination of the correctness, propriety and appropriateness of what he did in the trial of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hinton v. State · Clemmons v. Wolfe
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.