Hall v. Small Business Administration’s Empirical Analysis
695 F.2d 175 · 1983
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 11 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Liteky et al United States (1994), Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. (1988)
66 federal appellate · 11 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Rideout v. United States · Houltin v. United States · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Williams v. United States
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Law clerks are not merely the judge’s errand runners. They are sounding boards for tentative opinions and legal researchers who seek the authorities that affect decision. Clerks are privy to the judge’s thoughts in a way that neither parties to the lawsuit nor his most intimate family members may be.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A judge shall disqualify himself in a 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.