464 So. 2d 77 - Mhoon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Clemons v. Mississippi (1990), Stringer v. Black (1992)
3 federal appellate · 81 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Godfrey v. Georgia · Spinkellink v. Wainwright · Thigpen v. Roberts
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this particular case, however, the sheer number of law enforcement-connected persons in the jury pool, as well as persons selected as jurors, has worked a great hardship on Mhoon. Given the statistical aberation in the jury pool, the judge could have done several things to ameliorate its prejudicial effect: (1) he could have afforded counsel additional peremptory challenges, (2) he could have increased the size of the available venire as well as affording additional challenges, or (3) he could have sustained at least some of the challenges for cause.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“public confidence in the fairness of jury trials is essential to the existence of our legal system. Whatever tends to threaten public confidence in the fairness of jury trials, tends to threaten one of our sacred legal institutions.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“in a unique factual situation such as this unusual case, the opportunity for undue influence over the opinions of other jurors was too great a risk.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.