State v. Biegenwald’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
186 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Ramseur (1987), State v. Marshall (1991)
186 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Burks v. United States · Lockett v. Ohio · Irvin v. Dowd · Johnson v. State of New Jersey
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the overall scope and quality of the voir dire was sufficiently thorough and probing to assure the selection of an impartial jury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“between cases in which the trial atmosphere is so corrupted by publicity that prejudice may be presumed, and cases in which pretrial publicity, while extensive, is less intrusive, making the determinative issue the actual effect of the publicity on the impartiality of the jury panel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mejia · State v. Marshall“[T]he trial court's responsibility under both the federal and State constitutions to preserve the integrity of the jury and minimize the danger that prejudice will infiltrate the adjudicatory process is at its peak in cases involving the death penalty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.