Anderson v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 741 · 1988
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Lilley v. BTM Corp. (1992), Reed v. Rhodes (1999)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Goldberg v. Kelly · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] fair trial in a fair tribunal is a basic requirement of due process. Fairness, of course, requires an absence of actual bias in the trial of cases.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the harmless error doctrine is inapplicable in cases where judicial bias and/or hostility is found to have been exhibited at any stage of a judicial proceeding.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The judge should exercise self-restraint and preserve an atmosphere of impartiality.”
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.