Phillips v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining appearance of bias is assessed according to whether “given the circumstances, reasonable people would question the judge’s ability to be fair”
• \We review denial of a motion to disqualify a judge for abuse of discretion.\
• “[T]he ‘abuse of discretion’ standard of review applies only to a judge’s decision on the issue of whether the judge is actually capable of being fair.” (emphasis omitted)
• “On the separate issue of whether, given the circumstances, reasonable people would question the judge’s ability to be fair, the proper standard of review is de novo — because ‘reasonable appearance of bias’ is assessed under an objective standard.”
• discussing distinction between bias and appearance of bias

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Greenway v. Heathcott
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2013-02-15· cited 46×
• Kinnan v. Sitka Counseling
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2015-04-17· cited 29×
• Griswold v. Homer City Council
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2013-09-13· cited 24×
• Sagers v. Sackinger
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-02-14· cited 22×
• Diane L. Charette v. Dale N. Charette
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2013-01-08· cited 20×
• Jerry B. v. Sally B.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2016-06-10· cited 19×
• Samsara Memorial Trust v. Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman v. Raisin Memorial Trust
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2014-08-19· cited 18×
• Heber v. Heber
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-08-01· cited 15×
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2014-10-31· cited 14×
• Vent v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2012-11-16· cited 10×
• Patterson v. Cox
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-05-09· cited 9×
• Pederson v. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2018-04-13· cited 9×
• Meyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2016-01-22· cited 4×
• Gregory Numann v. Diane Gallant f/k/a Diane Numann
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2024-09-06· cited 2×
• Michael Joseph Johnson v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2020-10-02

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Reeves v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-09-14· cited 79×
• Amidon v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-12-21· cited 61×
• Burrell v. Burrell
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1984-03-09· cited 53×
• Nelson v. Jones
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1989-10-27· cited 53×
• Erickson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1997-12-12· cited 51×
• Blake v. Gilbert
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1985-07-05· cited 46×
• Bibo v. Jeffrey's Restaurant
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1989-02-10· cited 38×
• Perotti v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-02-08· cited 23×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-11-15· cited 22×
• Wasserman v. Bartholomew
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1996-09-20· cited 22×
• Feichtinger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1989-09-01· cited 8×
• Keller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2004-02-06· cited 7×