Corza v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Fults v. State (2001), Al-Amin v. State (2004)
39 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Smith v. Francis · McClain v. State · Waldrip v. State
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a juror to be excused for cause, it must be shown that he or she holds an opinion of the guilt or innocence of the defendant that is so fixed and definite that the juror will be unable to set the opinion aside and decide the case based upon the evidence or the court's charge upon the evidence. [ Garland v. State, 263 Ga. 495, 496 (1), 435 S.E.2d 431 (1993)]; McClain v. State, 267 Ga. 378, 380 (1)(a), 477 S.E.2d 814 (1996). A prospective juror's doubt as to his or her own impartiality does not demand as a matter of law that he or she be excused for cause. Waldrip v. State, 267 Ga. 739, 745 (8)(c), 482 S.E.2d 299 (1997).... A conclusion on an issue of juror bias is based on findings of demeanor and credibility which are peculiarly in the trial court's province, and those findings are to be given deference. Kirkland v. State, 271 Ga. 217, 219 (2), 518 S.E.2d 687 (1999).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]othing in the juror [s’] responses [that would] compel[ ] a finding that [they] had formed an opinion of [Wheeler’s] guilt or innocence that was so fixed and definite that [they] would be unable to set the opinion aside, or that [they] would be unable to decide the case based upon the court’s charge and upon the evidence^] . . . [i]t was not an abuse of discretion [for the trial court] to refuse to excuse the juror [s].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.