462 So. 2d 1075 - Mills v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably 524 So. 2d 403 - Torres-Arboledo v. State (1988), Mills v. Singletary (1995)
4 federal appellate · 43 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 Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Jones v. Howard · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Tison v. Arizona · United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The competency of a juror challenged for cause presents a mixed question of law and fact to be determined by the trial court. Manifest error must be shown to overturn the trial court's finding.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test for determining juror competency is whether the juror can lay aside any bias or prejudice and render a verdict solely on the evidence presented and the instructions on the law given by the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The prospective juror's distant relationship to the victim's family and his acquaintance with [the defendant] and his family did not negate his declarations of impartiality [and therefore excusal for cause was not required].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.