State v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
35
cited by 35 later decisions
2
states following
December 2002
most recently cited
33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Harrington v. California · Fahy v. Connecticut · Pope v. Nebraska
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of Witherspoon is not to be applied with the hypertechnical and archaic approach of a 19th Century pleading book, but with realism and rationality.”
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.