Willis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

67 state decisions

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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a defendant is not presumptively harmed by a trial court's erroneous failure to excuse a prospective juror for cause simply because the defendant subsequently elected to remove that juror through the use of a peremptory strike.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 348 Ga. App. 667 - JOHNSON v. the STATE. · 350 Ga. App. 340 - ADAMS v. the STATE.

2. “On appeal, our inquiry is whether the trial court's qualification or disqualification of the prospective juror is supported by the record as a whole. An appellate court must pay deference to the finding of the trial court; this deference includes the trial court's resolution of any equivocations or conflicts in the prospective juror's responses on voir dire. Whether to strike a juror for cause is within the discretion of the trial court and the trial court's rulings are proper absent some manifest abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 350 Ga. App. 340 - ADAMS v. the STATE.

3. “peremptory strikes are invaluable, [and when] a defendant in a felony trial has to exhaust his peremptory strikes to excuse a juror who should have been excused for cause the error is harmful.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 Ga. App. 667 - JOHNSON v. the STATE.