United States v. Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 1532 · 1987
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably United States v. Kelly (1989), Buell v. Mitchell (2001)
43 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Bibby 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding.”
5 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 ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a full disclosure on the record of the basis for disqualification.”
4 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.