Pollard v. Whitener’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Howard v. City of Kansas City (2011), Wanda Mayes v. Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, (Consolidated with)Wanda Mayes v. Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City (2014)
26 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 Voinovich v. Quilter · Noram Energy Corp. v. United States · Harleysville Life Insurance v. Mardell · Callahan v. Cardinal Glennon Hospital · State v. Parker
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essential purpose of voir dire is to provide for the selection of a fair and impartial jury through questions which permit the intelligent development of facts which may form the basis of challenges for cause, and to learn such facts as might be useful in intelligently executing peremptory challenges. It is designed to insure that the parties have fan- and impartial individuals serving as jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adkins v. Hontz
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.