Bristow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Hunt v. State (1990), Curtis v. State (1979)
50 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Fay v. Noia · Irvin v. Dowd · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Henry v. State of Mississippi
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]ll that can be required of a juror is that he should be without bias or prejudice for or against the accused, and that his mind is free to hear and impartially consider the evidence, and render a verdict thereon without regard to any former opinion or expression existing in his mind.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A challenge to an individual juror for cause must be made before that juror is sworn or at least before any evidence is received. Maryland rule 744 d. Where a cause for challenge was not reasonably known to the defendant until after commencement of the trial, as was the situation in this case, it was still not too late to object to a juror’s qualifications.”
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.