United States v. Sibla’s Empirical Analysis
624 F.2d 864 · 1980
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Liteky et al United States (1994), Gallo Winery v. Gallo Cattle Company (1992)
74 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Weatherford v. Bursey · Harelson v. United States · Barrett v. Zweibon
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is self-enforcing on the part of the judge.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the facts and the reasons for the belief that bias or prejudice exists.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.