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Ex Parte Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1996
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Gray v. Mississippi · Davis v. Georgia

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.

  1. “whether the juror's view would `prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions [as given by the trial court] and oath.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “that the proper standard for determining when a prospective juror may be excluded for cause because of his or her views on capital punishment,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “to such a degree and to such an extent that [their] performance as a juror would be substantially impaired.”
    1 later decision 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.