People v. Lefebre’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 894 So. 2d 88 - Busby v. State (2005), People v. Novotny (2014)
46 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Purkett v. Elem · Ross v. Oklahoma · United States v. Martinez-Salazar · The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant v. Frank D. RODRIGUEZ, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he existence of a state of mind in the juror evincing enmity or bias toward the defendant or the state; however, no person summoned as a juror shall be disqualified by reason of a previously formed or expressed opinion with reference to the guilt or innocence of the accused, if the court is satisfied, from the examination of the juror or from other evidence, that he will render an impartial verdict according to the law and the evidence submitted to the jury at the trial[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Trial judges have significant leeway in conducting voir dire ... because the judge is ultimately responsible for providing an impartial panel of jurors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Robles · People v. Vieyra“When a trial judge extensively questions a potential juror and that juror unequivocally reveals actual bias, the parties need not be afforded an opportunity to continue questioning the juror. As long as the judge sufficiently probed the juror's professed actual bias, the juror may be excused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Asberry
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.