State v. Van Duyne’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2007 · most notably Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966), Gentile v. State Bar of Nev. (1991)
63 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Irvin v. Dowd · Rideau v. Louisiana · Craig v. Harney · New York v. United States · State v. Kociolek
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“analyze and evaluate carefully the words, attitude and demeanor of the juror when he asserts an impartial mind and one which is free from prejudice regardless of the improper newspaper publicity. If, in spite of the disavowal, the trial court has any lingering doubt about the juror’s capacity for impartiality, he should be excused from service. [Id. at 386].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Battista v. Olson“determine for itself whether the pretrial newspaper stories are so pervasive and so prejudicial, or the juror’s protestation of unaffected impartiality after reading them so unconvincing or doubtful that a new trial should be ordered. [Ibid.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Battista v. Olson“(T)he succession of blows, the patently vicious manner of their infliction, the enormity of the cruelty and the horrendous injuries suffered provide further evidence of a wilful execution of an intent to kill. 204 A.2d at 846”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. LaChance
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.