Mu'Min v. Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
450 federal appellate · 49 district · 446 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,324 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Dickerson v. United States (2000), Morgan v. Illinois (1992)
450 federal appellate · 49 district · 446 state decisions — followed in 36 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Irvin v. Dowd · Wainwright v. Witt · Smith v. Phillips
Cited together with Irvin v. Dowd · Patton v. Yount · Strickland v. Washington · Morgan v. Illinois · Rosales-Lopez 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 1,324 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not easily subject to appellate review.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez v. Kw Prunty · Goff v. Bagley“Particularly with respect to pretrial publicity, we think this primary reliance on the judgment of the trial court makes good sense. The judge of that court sits in the locale where the publicity is said to have had its effect and brings to his evaluation of any such claim his own perception of the depth and extent of news stories that might influence a juror. The trial court, of course, does not impute his own perceptions to the jurors who are being examined, but these perceptions should be of assistance to it in deciding how detailed an inquiry to make of the members of the jury venire.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a trial court decides to put questions about the content of publicity to a potential juror or not, it must make the same decision at the end of the questioning: is this juror to be believed when he says he has not formed an opinion about the case?”
12 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.