Wolf v. Sundquist’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2013
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 Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Swain v. State of Alabama · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Wisconsin v. Yoder
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That standard is whether the juror’s views would ‘prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath.’ We note that, in addition to dispensing with Witherspoon’s reference to “automatic decision making,” this standard likewise does not require that a juror’s bias be proved with “unmistakable clarity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morris“It is now settled that a criminal defendant’s constitutional rights are not violated by excusing prospective jurors for cause when their personal beliefs concerning the death penalty would prevent or substantially impair their performance as a juror in accordance with their instructions and their oath.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Reid
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.