Bell v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 1085 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably United States v. Webster (1998), Laws v. Armontrout (1988)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Barker v. Wingo · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Stone v. Powell · Wainwright v. Witt
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is not automatically rendered unqualified to serve as a juror merely because he has been exposed to media coverage of the charged crime. The issue becomes whether exposure to media publicity will preclude the individual from returning a verdict based solely on the person's application of the law as stated to the evidence presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen asked whether [a] newspaper article [discussing the crime at issue in the trial] had influenced her, she stated `I guess he is more guilty, if I have to choose [between guilty and not guilty,]' and `I felt like he was guilty by the paper,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Do you believe that based on what you have heard, or at least the impression that's left of what you have heard, which is natural, that that would, or could, affect some of your deliberations over issues of fact?'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.