Sensley v. Albritton

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “a relative’s mere at-will employment relationship with an agency or law firm representing a party before a district court judge in a particular case is insufficient to require a judge to recuse himself’
• “Courts should take special care in reviewing recusal claims so as to prevent parties from ‘abus[ing] [Section] 455 for a dilatory and litigious purpose based on little or no substantiated basis.’” (first alteration in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

41 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-28· cited 297×
• Nachshin v. Aol, LLC
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-11-21· cited 126×
• Mathis v. Huff & Puff Trucking, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2015-06-02· cited 108×
• Ginsburg v. Evergreen Security, Ltd. (In Re Evergreen Security, Ltd.)
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-06-11· cited 98×
• United States v. Wells
  Tenth Circuit· 2017-10-23· cited 85×
• League of United Latin American Citizens v. City of Boerne
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-09-28· cited 57×
• Ex Parte Ellis
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-12-31· cited 42×
• Adair v. State, Dept. of Educ.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2006-01-31· cited 39×
• United States v. Martinez
  Tenth Circuit· 2024-02-16· cited 37×
• Matthew Akins v. Daniel Knight
  Eighth Circuit· 2017-07-25· cited 36×
• United States v. Brown
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-02-27· cited 30×
• Lake Eugenie Land & Development, Inc. v. BP Exploration & Production, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-06-02· cited 30×
• State v. Jacobs
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-09-14· cited 25×
• Fairley v. HATTIESBURG, MISS.
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-09-29· cited 24×
• Coulter v. Gerald Family Care, P.C.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2009-01-29· cited 22×
• Rodriguez v. Harris County
  S.D. Texas· 2013-08-01· cited 18×
• Foley Bey v. Prator
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-11-17· cited 14×
• In Re: Vazquez-Botet v.
  First Circuit· 2006-09-20· cited 9×
• Perez v. Abbott
  W.D. Texas· 2017-05-02· cited 9×
• United States v. Nixon
  District of Columbia· 2017-09-15· cited 9×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 11,658×
• Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-17· cited 1,932×
• Thornburg v. Gingles
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 1,221×
• Bush v. Vera
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 398×
• The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana v. Harry L. Laws Company, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-11-05· cited 322×
• Melvin R. Laird, Secretary of Defense v. Arlo Tatum
  Supreme Court· 1972-10-10· cited 291×
• Abrams v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 233×
• United States v. Jordan
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-03-30· cited 210×
• In the Matter of Bradford Mason
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-10-17· cited 189×
• Travelers Insurance v. Liljeberg Enterprises, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-11-21· cited 181×
• United States of America Ex Rel. David P. Weinberger, and David P. Weinberger, Esq., Individually v. Equifax, Inc. (Formerly Retail Credit Company)
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-08-12· cited 121×
• In Re Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
  Eighth Circuit· 1996-06-11· cited 117×
• In Re Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated
  Second Circuit· 1988-11-15· cited 114×
• Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Turnbow
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-05· cited 102×
• Clark v. Calhoun County, Miss.
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-05-23· cited 63×
• Beatrice Houston, Annie Ruth Manning, Mary Ann Williams v. Lafayette County, Mississippi
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-06-16· cited 48×
• Teague v. Attala County, MS
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-08-12· cited 34×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Fordice
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-05-17· cited 19×