In Re Jonathan Cooper and Steven Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Trevino v. Johnson (1999), Boyd v. State (1990)
2 federal appellate · 11 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 United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Anthony v. United States · Riverbend Farms, Inc. v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, clashes between court and counsel are an insufficient basis for disqualification under either statute. As the Eighth Circuit has explained, “The term ‘party’ as used in [§ 144] does not include counsel as such____ Antipathy to an attorney is insufficient grounds for disqualification of a judge because it is not indicative of extrajudicial bias against a ‘party.’ ... “Similarly, under 28 U.S.C. § 455 (a), which requires that a federal judge disqualify himself or herself ‘in any proceeding in which his [or her] impartiality might reasonably be questioned,’ a controversy between a trial judge and an attorney for parties to an action would not require disqualification of the judge in absence of showing of bias or personal prejudice to the parties.””
1 later decision 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. (e) No justice, judge, or magistrate shall accept from the parties to the proceeding a waiver of any ground for disqualification enumerated in subsection (b). Where the ground for disqualification arises only under subsection (a), waiver may be accepted provided it is preceded by a full disclosure on the record of the basis for disqualification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is true that occasionally exceptional circumstances do arise where a judge's attitude toward a particular attorney is so hostile that the judge's impartiality toward the client may reasonably be questioned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trevino v. Johnson
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