State v. Landrum’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 899 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 930 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Mills (1992), State v. Smith (1997)
19 federal appellate · 899 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 Griffin v. California · Chambers v. Mississippi · Doyle v. Ohio · Lockett v. Ohio · Roviaro 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 930 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with the utmost caution, under exceptional circumstances and only to prevent a manifest miscarriage of justice.”
53 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] careful and searching voir dire provides the best test of whether prejudicial pretrial publicity has prevented obtaining a fair and impartial jury from the locality.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bush · State v. Group“The Constitution does not guarantee an 'error free, perfect trial . . . .'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.