Bryant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2015
18 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 People v. . McQuade · State v. Millain · State v. Lewis · State v. Buralli · State v. Milosovich
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is not enough to be able to point to detached language which, alone considered, would seem to meet the statute requirement, if, on construing the whole declaration together, it is apparent that the juror is not able to express an absolute belief that his opinion will not influence his verdict."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. State“"It may be true that on cross-examination his [the prospective juror's] answers tended to contradict his previous statements but we believe that his very self-contradictions do not increase his fitness as a juryman."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson 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.