Dyer v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.3d 970 · 1998
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 3 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 239 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Melvin Tyler v. Burl Cain Warden (2001), United States v. Simtob (2007)
103 federal appellate · 3 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Teague v. Lane · Arizona v. Fulminante · Irvin v. Dowd · Lindh v. Murphy
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 239 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The bias or prejudice of even a single juror would violate [a criminal defendant's] right to a fair trial.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] court confronted with a colorable claim of juror bias must undertake an investigation of the relevant facts and circumstances.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“misunderstand a question or bend the truth a bit to avoid embarrassment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sears v. State · Scott v. Arnold
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.