State v. Bedford’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Mills (1992), State v. Carter (1995)
5 federal appellate · 124 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 Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Brown v. Illinois
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he scope of voir dire is within the trial court's discretion * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Loza · State v. Webb“[A] juror may not be challenged for cause based on his views about capital punishment unless those views would prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Webb
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.