United States v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
854 F.2d 697 · 1988
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Andrews v. Collins (1994), United States v. Collins (1992)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Smith v. Phillips · Remmer v. United States · McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party must first demonstrate that a juror failed to answer honestly a material question on voir dire, and then further show that a correct response would have provided a valid basis for a challenge for cause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"partly because the juror may have an interest in concealing [her] own bias and partly because the juror may be unaware of it." Though a juror might honestly believe she can be impartial, she nevertheless may have "such a close connection to the circumstances at hand that bias must be presumed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] finding of 'sincerity' is not the same as a finding that the juror was unbiased. A juror may not conceal material facts disqualifying h[er] simply because [s]he sincerely believes [s]he can be fair in spite of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. English v. Berghuis
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.