Russell v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 462 · 1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2007
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Watkins v. Oklahoma · National Football League v. Federal Communications Commission · Young v. Georgia · Henson v. Wyrick
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The dangers from sheriff selection of jurors are several. The sheriff may choose jurors whom he believes are likely to vote in favor of the prosecution. The likelihood of this is heightened if the sheriff or his deputies investigated the case or if the sheriff chooses only people he knows. Another danger is the chance that a juror so selected may associate the credibility of the sheriff with that of any deputy who testifies at the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cody v. Solem“[I]nstitutional interest alone is not enough to deprive a defendant of a fair trial. While the potential for unfairness was certainly present at Cody's trial, 'we are unable to conclude that this potential manifested itself.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coury v. Livesay“which was unfair in Anderson. While we agree with Anderson that the sheriff may have an”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coury v. Livesay
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.