11 Cited authorities

  1. Batson v. Kentucky

    476 U.S. 79 (1986)   Cited 15,242 times   61 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Equal Protection Clause applies to the use of peremptory strikes
  2. Powers v. Ohio

    499 U.S. 400 (1991)   Cited 2,548 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a white defendant has standing to challenge strikes of black jurors
  3. Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.

    556 U.S. 868 (2009)   Cited 868 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Holding that state-court-appellate judge should have recused himself from appeal as matter of due process
  4. In re Murchison

    349 U.S. 133 (1955)   Cited 2,115 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that it violated due process for one adjudicator to act as grand jury and judge for same defendants
  5. Republican Party of Minn. v. White

    536 U.S. 765 (2002)   Cited 382 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that it violated the First Amendment to prohibit announcement of views on disputed legal and political issues by candidates for judicial election
  6. Berger v. United States

    255 U.S. 22 (1921)   Cited 833 times
    Holding that the judge against whom an affidavit of bias is filed may pass on its legal sufficiency because "the reasons and facts for the belief the litigant entertains are an essential part of the affidavit, and must give fair support to the charge of a bent of mind that may prevent or impede impartiality of judgment."
  7. Murray's Lessee et al. v. Hoboken Land Improvement Co.

    59 U.S. 272 (1855)   Cited 219 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that pursuant to Article III, Congress may not "withdraw from judicial cognizance any matter which, from its nature, is the subject of a suit at the common law, or in equity, or admiralty"
  8. Section 1981 - Equal rights under the law

    42 U.S.C. § 1981   Cited 37,868 times   236 Legal Analyses
    Granting equal rights to "make and enforce contracts" without regard to race
  9. Section 1651 - Writs

    28 U.S.C. § 1651   Cited 11,018 times   60 Legal Analyses
    Granting us the power to "issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of [our] . . . jurisdiction[] and agreeable to the usages and principles of law"
  10. Section 453 - Oaths of justices and judges

    28 U.S.C. § 453   Cited 293 times
    Requiring each federal judge to solemnly swear or affirm to "administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich" and to "impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon [the judge] under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
  11. Section 360 - Disclosure of information

    28 U.S.C. § 360   Cited 16 times

    (a) CONFIDENTIALITY OF PROCEEDINGS.-Except as provided in section 355, all papers, documents, and records of proceedings related to investigations conducted under this chapter shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed by any person in any proceeding except to the extent that- (1) the judicial council of the circuit in its discretion releases a copy of a report of a special committee under section 353(c) to the complainant whose complaint initiated the investigation by that special committee