Mayes v. Leipziger’s Empirical Analysis
729 F.2d 605 · 1984
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Lee v. City of Los Angeles (2001), Schreiber Distributing Co. v. Serv-Well Furniture Co. (1986)
56 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 144
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Haines v. Kerner · Harelson v. United States · Gary Aircraft Corp. v. United States · 21 Cal. 3d 313 - Addison v. State of California
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable person with knowledge of all the facts would conclude that the judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a party may amend his pleading once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is filed....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here the record does not clearly indicate the district court's denial [of leave to amend], we have been unwilling to affirm absent written findings.”
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.