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← 274 Ga. 778 - Kirkland v. State

Kirkland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

32 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Johnson v. Zerbst · Harris v. State · Bradham v. State · McElhannon 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “an accused is entitled to a full panel of qualified jurors (that is, jurors not subject to being excused for cause) to which to direct his peremptory strikes.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[a]s applied to [defendant's] case, members of the venire who responded affirmatively to the court's inquiry concerning a business relationship to the [corporate victim] were disqualified to serve as a matter of law and were subject to challenge for cause”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[b]ias is conclusively presumed or inferred as a matter of law regardless of actual partiality, where a juror is related to a party. In that circumstance, disqualification on the basis of implied bias is mandatory.”
    1 later decision 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.