721 So. 2d 875 - In Re Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2024
23 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
Relies on In Re Haggerty · 549 So. 2d 259 - In Re Chaisson · 705 So. 2d 172 - In Re Quirk · 543 So. 2d 908 - Allen v. State Bd. of Dentistry · 654 So. 2d 687 - In Re Decuir
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge shall be patient, dignified, and courteous to litigants, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, and others with whom the judge deals in an official capacity, and should require similar conduct of lawyers, and of staff, court officials, and others subject to the judge's direction and control.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Ellender · In re Johnson“On recommendation of the judiciary commission, the supreme court may censure, suspend with or without salary, remove from office, or retire involuntarily a judge for willful misconduct relating to his official duty, willful and persistent failure to perform his duty, persistent and public conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute, conduct while in office which would constitute a felony, or conviction of a felony. On recommendation of the judiciary commission, the supreme court may disqualify a judge from exercising any judicial function, without loss of salary, during pendency of proceedings in the supreme court. On recommendation of the judiciary commission, the supreme court may retire involuntarily a judge for disability that seriously interferes with the performance of his duties and that is or is likely to become permanent. The supreme court shall make rules implementing this Section and providing for confidentiality and privilege of commission proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile a judge may be forceful and stern, he or she must remain respectful and in control of his or her temperhostile, demeaning or humiliating language is never warranted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Ellender
How this case has been treated — in progress
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