State v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably State v. Covington (1976), State v. Smith (1985)
152 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Irvin v. Dowd · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Bumper v. North Carolina
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n this jurisdiction counsel's exercise of the right to inquire into the fitness of jurors is subject to the trial judge's close supervision. The regulation of the manner and the extent of the inquiry rests largely in the trial judge's discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Reasonable doubt is doubt based on reason. It is a reasonable doubt as distinguished from a flimsy doubt. It is a significant and important doubt. Let me read that to you again. It is a reasonable doubt as distinguished from a flimsy one. It is an important, significant doubt. That is what reasonable doubt is. It’s not a vain or imaginary doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Penland
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.