Standefer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
74
cited by 74 later decisions
3
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
73 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Liteky v. United States · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States · Malik v. State · Linn 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.
“Commitment questions are those that commit a prospective juror to resolve, or to refrain from resolving, an issue a certain way after learning a particular fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an open-ended question can be a commitment question if the question asks the prospective juror to set the hypothetical parameters for his decision-making.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owens v. State · Sandoval v. State“[F]or a commitment question to be proper, one of the possible answers to that question must give rise to a valid challenge for cause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobs v. State · Sanchez v. State
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.