231 F. Supp. 37 - Sheppard v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1998 · most notably Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966), State v. Van Duyne (1964)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Fay v. Noia · Irvin v. Dowd · Tumey v. State of Ohio · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * How can fallible men and women reach a disinterested verdict based exclusively on what they heard in court when, before they entered the jury box, their minds were saturated by press and radio for months preceding by matter designed to establish the guilt of the accused. A conviction so secured obviously constitutes a denial of due process of law in its most rudimentary conception.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. People““* * * no compunction in finding that the publicity was so prejudicial to petitioner that the assurances of the jurors must be disregarded or in the words of Mr. Justice Frankfurter, ‘before they [the jurors] entered the jury box, their minds were saturated by press and radio * * * designed to establish the guilt of the accused.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. People““* * * we do not hesitate to hold, without pausing to examine a particularized transcript of the voir dire examination of the members of the jury, that due process of law in this case required a trial before a jury drawn from a community of people who had not seen and heard Rideau’s televised ‘interview’. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. People
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.