State v. Bunker’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Dinan v. Marchand (2006), 103 Conn. App. 100 - State v. Blango (2007)
38 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 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Attwood v. Singletary · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A factual basis is necessary to determine whether a reasonable person, knowing all of the circumstances, might reasonably question the trial judge's impartiality. ... It is a fundamental principle that to demonstrate bias sufficient to support a claim of judicial disqualification, the due administration of justice requires that such a demonstration be based on more than opinion or conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Milner“[i]n Connecticut, as in almost all other jurisdictions, [e]vidence of crimes subsequent to the crime charged [is] also admissible for the same purposes as those committed prior to the charge”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“adverse rulings by the judge do not amount to evidence of bias sufficient to support a claim of judicial disqualification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.