Bean v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Wilkins v. State (1980), Warden, Nevada State Prison v. Lischko (1974)
4 district · 42 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Pointer v. Texas · Boulden v. Holman · Bearman v. Camatsos
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the existence of a state of mind on the part of the juror which leads to a just inference, in reference to the case, that he will not act with entire impartiality, which is known in this Title as actual bias.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.