State v. Bernard’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
June 1982
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · United States v. Mitchell · Cass v. United States · State v. Atkinson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Q. Do you have any religious or moral scruples or beliefs against capital punishment? A. Well, I don’t believe in the death penalty, no. Q. Sir? A. I don’t believe in the death penalty, no. Q. It would be impossible regardless of the evidence for us to put enough evidence in there to satisfy you to bring in a verdict of guilty if that meant the imposition of the Death Penalty, is that right?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barfield“he thought he would automatically vote against the imposition of the death penalty regardless of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pinch
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.