People v. Drake’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant v. Frank D. RODRIGUEZ, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee. (1996), People v. Dunlap (1999)
65 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o person summoned as a juror shall be disqualified by reason of a previously formed or expressed opinion .with reference to the guilt or innocence of the accused, if the court is satisfied, from the examination of the juror or from other evidence, that he will render an impartial verdict according, to the law and the evidence submitted to the jury at the trial[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Marko v. People · People v. Clemens“the credibility and demeanor of a prospective juror.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The record in this case does reveal incidents of trial court comments to defense counsel that were rude, and some discussions with defense witnesses that evidenced irritation.... We cannot say, however, that the record as a whole establishes that bent of mind against the defendant or his at-tormey that warrants a finding of bias. ...”
2 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.