impartial juror
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 366 U.S. 717 - Irvin v. Dowd · 1961Most cited · 6,999 citing opinions
It is not required that the jurors be totally ignorant of the facts and issues involved. It is sufficient if the juror can lay aside his impression or opinion and render a verdict based on the evidence presented in court.
How often courts cite the case defining “impartial juror”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “impartial juror” — 6,997 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.