Stivers v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.3d 732 · 1995
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 12 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 34 Cal. 4th 553 - Graham v. DaimlerChrysler Corp. (2005), Staton v. Boeing Co. (2003)
38 federal appellate · 12 district · 14 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 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A fair trial in a fair tribunal is a basic requirement of due process. Fairness of course requires an absence of actual bias in the trial of cases. But our system of law has always endeavored to prevent even the probability of unfairness. To this end no man can be a judge in his own case and no man is permitted to try cases where he has an interest in the outcome.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“probability of actual bias ... is too high to be constitutionally tolerable” are those in which the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appearance of partiality that violates due process, even without any showing of actual bias.”
2 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.