State Ex Rel. v. Fullerton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““C-ourts should scrupulously maintain the right of every litigant to an impartial and disinterested tribunal for the determination of his rights. All are interested in the integrity, independence, and impartiality of the judiciary, the most important and powerful branch of our government. Judges presiding over the courts should be unbiased, impartial, and disinterested in the subject-matter in litigation, and it is of the utmost importance that all doubt or suspicion to the contrary be jealously guarded against, and, if possible, completely eliminated, to the end that we may maintain and give full force and effect to the high ideals and salutary safeguards written in the organic law of the state. State ex rel. Mayo v. Pitchford, 43 Okla. 105 , 141 P. 433 ; Yazoo & M. V. R. Co. v. Kirk, 102 Miss. 41 , 58 South. 710 , 834, 42 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1172, Ann. Cas. 1914C, 968.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sandlin v. Weston · Son v. Linebaugh

2. ““* * The question is not so much whether respondent himself feels he will be able to give plaintiffs a fair and impartial trial, as whether * * * (the circumstances of the case) * * * preclude reasonable men from feeling that a fair and impartial trial can be had before him and that he is disinterested in such litigation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sadberry v. Wilson