State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably State v. Brueckner (1981), State v. Weide (1991)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 United States v. Yves Glaziou and Rene L. A. Lemieux · State v. Thomas · State v. Burns · State v. Harris · State v. Young
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant contends ... that the court erred in denying defendant’s challenge for cause upon voir dire examination of jury panelist George Ellett. His argument is that since Mr. Ellett had been in the reserve unit of the Excelsior Springs Police Department for several years, he was “so imbued with a philosophy of law enforcement that it is impossible for him to be impartial.” Mr. Ellett, a retired reserve police officer of 26 years’ experience, when asked if he could try the case fairly and impartially in light of his police experience, answered unequivocally that he could. In such circumstances, defendant quite properly “readily admits that in similar cases, the Courts of this state have held that no prejudice results from a mere affiliation with a law enforcement agency, ...” In addition to appellant’s concession of the law adverse to his argument, there is nothing in this record to show other than that Mr. Ellett was free from prejudice and able to accord the accused a fair and impartial trial. Accordingly, there is no abuse of discretion upon which to disturb the trial court’s ruling on the challenge for cause. (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Edwards
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.