Amirault v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 1404 · 1992
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Dyer v. Calderon (1998), Fields v. Brown (2007)
26 federal appellate · 6 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Smith v. Phillips · Patton v. Yount
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n most cases, the honesty or dishonesty of a juror’s response is the best initial indicator of whether the juror in fact was impartial.... I understand the Court’s holding not to foreclose the normal avenue of relief available to a par-ty_ [Rjegardless of whether a juror's answer is honest or dishonest, it remains within a trial court's option, in determining whether a jury was biased, to order a post-trial hearing at which the movant has the opportunity to demonstrate actual bias or, in exceptional circumstances, that the facts are such that bias is- to be inferred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Zerka v. Green · Gonzales v. Thomas“[a] trial court's findings on issues of juror credibility and honesty are determinations 'peculiarly within a trial judge's province.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'exceptional' or 'extreme' circumstances”
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.