Margoles v. Johns’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 1069 · 1986
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Henry v. Farmer City State Bank (1986), 3 Penny Theater Corp. v. Plitt Theatres, Inc. (1987)
27 federal appellate · 2 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. § 455
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Ackermann v. United States · Klapprott v. United States · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg · United States v. Murphy
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only upon a showing of extraordinary circumstances that create a substantial danger that the underlying judgment was unjust.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a strong policy favoring the finality of judgments,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'we can only consider whether the denial of the motion was an abuse of discretion; we cannot reach the merits of the underlying judgment.'”
2 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.