Gray v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The affidavit of disqualification shall be filed within ten [10] days after the cause is at issue or within ten [10] days after the time for filing a demand for jury trial has expired, whichever is the later [sic]." [Emphasis Ours.]”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Martinez v. Carmona · State v. Padilla

2. “* * * True enough, parties may not know before which of two or more judges eligible to try a case, it will come on for trial. In such circumstances, the party seeking disqualification of one honestly believed by him to be biased could make a provisional affidavit, reciting the facts and adding “that if the judge before whom the case is to be tried or heard should be Judge_, then according to affiant’s belief such judge cannot preside over the same with impartiality,” etc. * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Martinez v. Carmona

3. “... [A] party needs to know the name of the judge before whom the case is to be tried and needs that information early in the litigation. ... Accordingly, it is incumbent upon the judges in multi-judge districts to provide, by rule, a method by which the party may know the name of the judge before whom the case is to be tried and may know the name before the right to disqualify under § 21-5-8, supra, has been lost.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Demers v. Gerety