United States v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 722 · 1982
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 15 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Franks v. Nimmo (1986), United States v. Murphy (1985)
72 federal appellate · 15 district · 10 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 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 138 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Spinelli v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Parker v. Levy
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ection 455(a) must not be so broadly construed that it becomes, in effect, presumptive, so that recusal is mandated upon the merest unsubstantiated suggestion of personal bias or prejudice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Varela v. Jones · Franks v. Nimmo“the ordinary person exercising ordinary common sense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“his impartiality might reasonably be questioned,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vasquez v. Misel L Kr F G Vasquez · Paul Luna Vasquez v. Tom Misel, Casemanager, at the Centennial Correctional Facility, Official Capacity and Individual Capacity Randy L. Henderson, Superintendent of the Centennial Correctional Facility, Official Capacity and Individual Capacity K.R. Gregg, Captain at the Centennial Correctional Facility and Unit F and G Housing Supervisor, Official Capacity and Individual Capacity Donice Neal, Superintendent of the Colorado State Penitentiary in Official Capacity and Individual Capacity Doctor Neufeld, Physician Either Prison Employee or an Contractor With the Colorado Department of Corrections, in Official Capacity and Individual Capacity John Doe Either at the Centennial Correctional Facility or Colorado State Penitentiary, Canon City, Colorado, Paul Luna Vasquez v. Michael Laurent, Officer, Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility Ivan Walters, Officer, Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility Tom Jennings, Lieutenant, Housing Supervisor and Disciplinary Officer of the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility David M. Beebe, Lieutenant, Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility Russell E. Ellis, Hearing Officer, Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility
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.