Justus v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Jones v. United States (1999), LeVasseur v. Commonwealth (1983)
3 federal appellate · 133 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 Smith v. Commonwealth · Von Byrd v. Texas · Coppola v. Commonwealth · Waye v. Commonwealth · Clark v. Virginia
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an open invitation for the jury to avoid its responsibility and to disagree.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smith · Ex Parte Giles““must be able to give [the accused] a fair and impartial trial. Upon this point nothing should be left to inference or doubt. All the tests applied by the courts, all the enquiries made into the state of the juror’s mind, are merely to ascertain whether [the juror] comes to the trial free from partiality and prejudice. “If there be a reasonable doubt whether the juror possesses these qualifications, that doubt is sufficient to insure his exclusion. For, as has been well said, it is not only important that justice should be impartially administered, but it should also flow through channels as free from suspicion as possible.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[H]owever willing the juror might be to trust himself, the law will not trust him.”
2 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.