State v. Burrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) The judge has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party or a party’s lawyer, or personal knowledge of facts that are in dispute in the proceeding. (2) The judge knows that the judge, the judge’s spouse, a person with whom the judge has an intimate relationship, a member of the judge’s household, or a person within the third degree of relationship to any of them, or the spouse or person in an intimate relationship with such a person is: (a) a party to the proceeding, or an officer, director, general partner, managing member, or trustee of a party; (b) acting as a lawyer in the proceeding; (c) a person who has more than a de minimis interest that could be substantially affected by the proceeding; or (d)likely to be a material witness in the proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jacobs

2. “`[t]he proper remedy [for the State] to pursue when a motion to remove has been denied is ... a writ of prohibition.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lessley

3. “'[t]he question ... is not the form of relief but rather the validity of the basis upon which it was awarded.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. OCC, LLC v. Cnty. of Hennepin (In re OCC, LLC)