United States v. Story’s Empirical Analysis
716 F.2d 1088 · 1983
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably United States v. Balistrieri (1985), Hale v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1985)
82 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 144
Relies on Santoni v. United States · Berger v. United States · Roberts v. United States · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Dann v. Johnston
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A bias sufficient to justify recusal must be a personal bias”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No limitation shall be placed on the information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the united States may receive and consider for the purpose of imposing an appropriate sentence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“convince a reasonable man that a bias exists.”
3 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.