Certain Complaints Under Investigation by an Investigating Committee of Judicial Council of Eleventh Circuit. v. Mercer’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably the Honorable John H. McBryde v. Committee to Review Circuit Council Conduct and Disability Orders of the Judicial Conference, Whitehouse v. United States District Court (1995)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. Nixon · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · William Marbury v. James Madison
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here can, of course, be no disagreement among us as to the imperative need for total and absolute independence of judges in deciding cases or in any phase of the decisional function.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The judiciary as a whole ... has a interest in seeing that non-frivolous complaints are looked into, to the end that the judge, and the system he exemplifies, be exonerated or, if not that the public perceive that the system has undertaken to police itself, within constitutional limits, of course.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.