Goebel v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2014
11 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 People v. Botham · In Re the Marriage of Mann · Goebel v. Colorado Department of Institutions · Johnson v. Jefferson County Board of Health · Johnson v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR JEFFERSON
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge shall be disqualified in an action in which he is interested or prejudiced.... A judge may disqualify himself on his own motion ... or any party may move for such disqualification and a motion by a party for disqualification shall be supported by affidavit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A ruling by a judge on a legal issue does not require disqualification absent facts in the motion or affidavits from which it may reasonably be inferred that the judge is biased or prejudiced or has a bent of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Schupper“'state facts from which it may reasonably be inferred that the judge has a bias or prejudice that will prevent [her] from dealing fairly' with the party seeking recusal.”
1 later decision 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.