In Re Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 1307 · 1988
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 16 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Morrison (1998), United States v. Roldan-Zapata (1990)
62 federal appellate · 16 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. § 1407 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. 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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge is as much obliged not to recuse himself when it is not called for as he is obliged to when it is.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[J]udges determine appearance of impropriety ... by examining the record facts and the law, and then deciding whether a reasonable person knowing and understanding all the relevant facts would recuse the judge.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any justice, judge, or magistrate of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
9 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.