In Re Diana R Beard et Als’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 522 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Ah Robins Company Incorporated Menard-Sanford, Trevino v. Johnson (1999)
5 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 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 Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · A.H. Robins Co. v. Piccinin
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 522 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he has a clear and indisputable right to the relief sought; (2) the responding party has a clear duty to do the specific act requested; (3) the act requested is an official act or duty; (4) there are no other adequate means to attain the relief he desires; and (5) the issuance of the writ will effect right and justice in the circumstances.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The alleged bias must derive from an extra-judicial source.... The nature of the judge’s bias must be personal and not judicial.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. (b) He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances: (1) Where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding;”
3 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.