Eizember v. Trammell’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.3d 1129 · 2015
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Grant v. Royal (2018), Murphy v. Royal (2017)
8 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · United States v. Leon · Coleman v. Thompson · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial judge is best positioned to determine whether a potential juror will be able to follow his or her instructions-and that a court of appeals removed from the live proceedings must afford significant deference to the trial judge's assessments”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. FREDERICK v. STATE · REECE v. STATE“Deference to the trial court is appropriate because it is in a position to assess the demeanor of the venire, and of the individuals who compose it, a factor of critical importance in assessing the attitude and qualifications of potential jurors.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. REECE v. STATE · REECE v. STATE“A juror who will automatically vote for the death penalty in every case will fail in good faith to consider the evidence of aggravating and mitigating circumstances as the instructions require him to do.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. REECE v. STATE · REECE 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.