State v. Bayless’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 422 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 433 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Lockett v. Ohio (1978), State v. Maurer (1984)
3 federal appellate · 422 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 Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Harrington v. California
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 433 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] careful and searching voir dire provides the best test of whether prejudicial pretrial publicity has prevented obtaining a fair and impartial jury from the locality.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no reasonable possibility that the evidence may have contributed to the accused's conviction.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Any decision to vary the order of proceedings at trial in R.C. 2945.10 is within the sound discretion of the trial court, and any claim that the trial court erred in following the statutorily mandated order of proceedings must sustain a heavy burden to demonstrate the unfairness and prejudice of following that order.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grant · State v. Gumm
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.