State v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Saunders (1999), State v. Houston (2015)
25 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 · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler · Mitchell v. Texas · State v. Crespin
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.
“Religious beliefs, unlike gender or race, are not readily apparent, and their existence, if directly related to the subject matter of the suit ... must be determined by preliminary inquiry.... Voir dire is intended to provide a tool for counsel and the court to carefully and skillfully determine, by inquiry, whether biases and prejudices, latent as well as acknowledged, will interfere with a fair trial if a particular juror serves in it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although a trial judge has some discretion in limiting voir dire examinations, that discretion should be liberally exercised in favor of allowing counsel to elicit information from prospective jurors. Indeed, the fairness of a trial may depend on the right of counsel to ask voir dire questions designed to discover attitudes and biases, both conscious and subconscious, even though they ‘would not have supported a challenge for cause.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'to exercise his peremptory challenges more intelligently.’”
3 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.