Keeten v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions

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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although the right to a jury trial includes the right to a jury venire drawn from a representative cross-section of the community, it does not include the right to be tried by jurors who are unable or unwilling to follow the law and the instructions of the trial judge in a capital case.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 106 Wash. 2d 176 - State v. Hughes · DeVooght v. State

2. “[i]t indicates only that a death-qualified jury might favor the prosecution and that a nondeath-qualified jury might favor the defendant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Witt v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al. · Grigsby v. Mabry

3. ““unmistakably clear (1) that they would automatically vote against the imposition of capital punishment without regard to any evidence that might be developed at the trial of the case before them, or (2) that their attitude toward the death penalty would prevent them from making an impartial decision as to the defendant’s guilt.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Boggs v. Commonwealth