People v. MacRander’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Carrillo v. People (1999), People v. Harlan (2000)
70 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 Powers v. Ohio · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Ross v. Oklahoma · Pointer v. United States · United States v. Wood
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rationale of these cases is that when a defendant is forced to utilize a peremptory challenge to correct a trial court’s error in denying a challenge for cause, and thereafter exercises all available peremptory challenges on other prospective jurors, the effect of the trial court’s erroneous ruling on the challenge for cause is to impair the defendant’s ability to change the ultimate composition of the jury selected to try the case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]Jo 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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'affects a substantial right of the defendant and cannot be harmless error'”
5 later decisions 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.