State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2012
6 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 State v. Smith · State v. Carter · State v. Ealy · State v. Morrison · State v. Williams
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was related to a law enforcement officer, and because of that relationship was `apprehensive' about his ability to give the defendant a fair trial. Further, the credibility of the police officers who testified was the key issue in the case, thus making the failure to strike this venireman more significant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Edwards“is uncertain and ambiguous in his answers or, at worst, is actually biased to such an extent that he would be unable to give the defendant a fair and impartial trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Edwards“clear abuse of discretion and real probability of injury to the complaining party.”
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.