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49 F.3d 1181 · 1995

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
3
states following
August 2024
most recently cited

27 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Williams (1997), Dyer v. Calderon (1998)

27 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions

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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

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Keene Corp. v. United States · Licht v. Texas Commerce Bank · Stilson v. United States

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.

  1. “regardless of whether a juror’s answer is honest or dishonest, it remains within a trial court’s option ... to order a post-trial hearing at which the movant has the opportunity to demonstrate ... bias”); id. at 558, 104 S.Ct. at 851 (Brennan, J., joined by Marshall, J., concurring in the judgment) (”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “must first demonstrate that a juror failed to answer honestly a material question ... and then further show that a correct response would have provided a valid basis for a challenge for cause.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[i]n the absence of intentional concealment, only extreme circumstances justify a new trial.”
    2 later decisions 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.