Leslie Irvin v. Alfred F. Dowd, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
271 F.2d 552 · 1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2002
3 federal appellate · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Reynolds v. States · Holt v. United States · Stroble v. California
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The record reveals that the trial judge applied this act in this ease. With painstaking care, the court, in asking questions of jurors expressing an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of defendant, founded upon reading newspaper statements, communications, comments or reports, or upon rumors or hearsay, required each such juror to state on oath_ whether he felt able, notwithstanding such opinion, to render an impartial verdict upon the law and evidence. Several of those who answered in the affirmative were accepted upon the trial jury. Defendant now seeks to have us determine, as a matter of federal constitutional law, that this action by the trial court deprived defendant of a fair trial. “We have no right to question the intelligence, the truthfulness or the sincerity of these jurors, whose impartiality to render a verdict upon the law and the evidence was, after examination, determined to the trial judge’s satisfaction, in the manner provided by the Indiana act. “A careful reading of the entire record convinces us that the jury which tried defendant was properly qualified as a fair and impartial fact-finding body.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. State““If the State is so prevented from trying such a person, it means that the commission within a state of a multiplicity of criminal acts, followed by the usual publicity, actually immunizes the offender from prosecution. We reject such a conclusion as a law of this circuit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. State“[t]he passage of time is a great healer,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patton v. Yount
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.