United States v. Runner’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.2d 908 · 1974
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably Rosales-Lopez v. United States (1981), United States v. Jackson (1977)
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Powell v. Texas · Johnson v. Louisiana · Lewis 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is fundamental that the trial court has broad discretion in deciding what questions to ask [during voir dire] and that its rulings will not be reversed absent an abuse of discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The voir dire in American trials tends to be extensive and probing, operating as a predicate for the exercise of perempto-ries, and the process of selecting a jury protracted.... A denial or impairment of the right to challenge is reversible error without a showing of prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Evans · Harold v. Corwin“The importance of a truly impartial jury, whether the action is civil or criminal, has never really been questioned in this country.”
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.