Dixon v. Hardey’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2015
20 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 Wilson v. State · Grandquest v. Williams · Knop v. McCain · 342 So. 2d 323 - Alabama Power Co. v. Henderson · McLemore v. Alabama Power Company
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a juror vacillates in her response to voir dire , her answers must be 'taken as a whole.' Knop [ v. McCain , 561 So.2d 229 , 233 (Ala. 1989)]; Ex parte Beam , 512 So.2d 723 , 724 (Ala. 1987). Thus, when the aggregate effect of her response tends to verify the existence of 'deep-seated impressions,' she must be excluded for cause. Knop , 561 So.2d at 233 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a doctor-patient relationship between a potential juror and a party to a lawsuit is prima facie evidence of probable prejudice on the part of the potential juror,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he simple extraction of an affirmative response from a potential juror does not necessarily absolve that juror of probable prejudice.”
2 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.