Maier v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 1578 · 1985
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Lam v. University of Hawai'i (1994), Sierra Club v. Simkins Industries, Inc. (1988)
14 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 372 · 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 5 U.S.C. § 5534 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Central Intelligence Agency v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for the Unification of World Christianity · Barrett v. Zweibon · Perini v. Downey · Environmental Protection Agency v. Brown
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]bsent a factual showing of a reasonable basis for questioning his or her impartiality, or allegations of facts establishing other disqualifying circumstances, a judge should participate in cases assigned. Conclusory statements are of no effect____ Frivolous and improperly based suggestions that a judge recuse should be firmly declined, [citaions omitted] Nor does mere prior association form a reasonable basis for questioning a judge’s impartiality.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“mere prior association does not form reasonable basis for questioning a judge's impartiality”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.