Rock v. Zimmerman’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 1237 · 1992
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez (2010), James William Riley v. Stanley W. Taylor M. Jane Brady (2001)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · North Carolina v. Pearce · Estelle v. McGuire · Irvin v. Dowd
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he community and media ... reaction must have been so hostile and so pervasive as to make it apparent that even the most careful voir dire process would be unable to assure an impartial jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. William H. Flamer v. State of Delaware Darl Chaffinch Raymond Callaway Harold K. Brode William H. Porter Gary A. Myers Loren C. Meyers Dana Reed James E. Liguori Charles M. Oberly, III Walter Redman Stanley W. Taylor, Acting Warden Warden Robert Snyder William Henry Flamer, Billie Bailey v. Robert Snyder, Warden, Delaware Correctional Center · James William Riley v. Stanley W. Taylor M. Jane Brady““ “Where media or other community reaction to a crime or a defendant engenders an atmosphere so hostile and pervasive as to preclude a rational trial process, a court reviewing for constitutional error will presume prejudice to the defendant without reference to an examination of the attitudes of those who served as the defendant’s jurors.' Rock v. Zimmerman, 959 F.2d 1237, 1252 (3d Cir.1992). The community and .media reaction must have been so hostile and so pervasive that it is apparent even the most careful voir dire process would be unable to assure an impartial jury. Id.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that jury members may have been exposed to press reports or other community reaction concerning the case and even the fact that they may have formed a tentative opinion based on that exposure will not establish a constitutional violation if the trial court has found, with record support, that each of the jurors was able to put aside extrinsic influences.”
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.