Wheeler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “potential jurors are impartial, and the burden of proving partiality lies with the party seeking to have the juror disqualified.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 Ga. App. 667 - JOHNSON v. the STATE. · Nguyen v. State

2. “if an opinion held by the potential juror is so fixed and definite that the juror will be unable to set the opinion aside and decide the case based upon the evidence or the court's charge upon the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nguyen v. State

3. “Whether to strike a juror for cause lies within the sound discretion of the trial judge, and the trial court's exercise of that discretion will not be set aside absent a manifest abuse of discretion[.]”

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