People v. MacKey’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably People v. Vigil (1986), People v. Collins (1986)
81 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · Hampton v. People · Mathis v. People · People v. Spinuzzi
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he purpose of voir dire examination is to enable counsel to determine whether any prospective jurors ‘ ... are possessed of beliefs which would cause them to be biased in such a manner as to prevent his client from obtaining a fair and impartial trial.’ Edwards v. People, 160 Colo. 395 , 418 P.2d 174 .” See also Padilla v. People, 171 Colo. 521 , 470 P.2d 846 (1970); Hampton v. People, 171 Colo. 153 , 465 P.2d 394 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is within the sound discretion of the trial court and only where that discretion has been abused will a new trial be ordered.”
1 later decision 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.