United States v. Sciarra’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 621 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Keystone Insurance v. Houghton (1988), Grayson v. AT & T CORP. (2011)
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a party to any proceeding in a district court makes and files a timely and sufficient affidavit that the judge before whom the matter is pending has a personal bias or prejudice either against him or in favor of any adverse party, such judge shall proceed no further therein, but another judge shall be assigned to hear such proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The moving party shall file an affidavit which] shall state the facts and the reasons for the belief that bias or prejudice exists ... [and] shall be accompanied by a certificate of counsel of record stating that it is made in good faith. 4”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The contempt order effectively transforms the `interlocutory' into the `final' by giving the [nonparty] witness a distinct and severable interest in the underlying action.”
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.