Berry v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2011
17 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · Blizard v. Frechette · Federal Skywalk Cases Johnson Federal Skywalk Cases Rau · Fields v. Fields · Walker v. Bishop
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A judge should disqualify himself in a proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where: (a) he has ... personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`in light of the full record, not simply in light of an isolated incident.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re KRJB
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.