Bruflat v. Mister Guy, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2015
22 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
Relies on Davis v. Research Medical Center · Wulfing v. Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc. · Alexander v. D.L. Sitton Motor Lines · Wright v. Sports Associated, Inc. · Jones v. Jefferson City School District
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A judge should recuse in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where the judge: (a) has a personal bias or prejudice concerning the proceeding; (b) served as a lawyer in the matter in controversy, or a lawyer with whom the judge previously practiced law served during such association as a lawyer concerning the matter, or the judge or such lawyer has been a material witness concerning it; (c) knows that the judge, individually or as a fiduciary, or the judge’s spouse or minor child residing in the household has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding; (d) or a spouse, or a person within the third degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse of such a person: (i) is a party to the proceeding, or an officer, director, or trustee of a party; (ii) is known by the judge to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding; (iii) is to the judge’s knowledge likely to be a material witness in the proceeding!;.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Reed“The facts or data in a particular case upon which an expert bases an opinion or inference may be those perceived by or made known to him at or before the hearing and must be of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in the field in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject and must be otherwise reasonably reliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The mere fact that rulings are made against a party does not show bias or prejudice on the part of the judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re BRM
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.