State v. Clark

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that keeping out a “critical fact” in voir dire “does not satisfy the defendant’s right to an impartial jury”
• explaining that the trial court is given wide discretion over the examination of prospective jurors during voir dire
• holding error in denying right to examine venire about critical facts
• reversing where the trial court refused to allow voir dire questions regarding potential bias arising from the “critical fact” that one of the victims was three years old
• identifying as source of prejudice questions that require the venire panel to speculate about how they will react to certain evidence
• \The purpose of voir dire is to discover bias or prejudice in order to select a fair and impartial jury.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

51 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Jackson
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2005-11-23· cited 275×
• State v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2003-08-26· cited 232×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2006-06-30· cited 195×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-11-06· cited 152×
• State v. Withrow
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1999-12-07· cited 146×
• Cleveland Jackson v. Marc Houk
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-07-24· cited 138×
• State v. Winfield
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1999-11-09· cited 82×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 61×
• McIntosh v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2013-11-26· cited 59×
• State v. Oates
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2000-02-22· cited 56×
• State v. Gilbert
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2003-04-22· cited 47×
• State v. Barton
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1999-08-03· cited 40×
• Knese v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-10-22· cited 33×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-07-05· cited 33×
• State v. Hunt
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2011-04-27· cited 28×
• State v. Ousley
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2013-12-24· cited 25×
• Martinez v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2006-02-13· cited 23×
• State v. Lyons
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2017-06-15· cited 20×
• Edgar v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2004-07-20· cited 13×
• State v. Reyes
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2003-06-24· cited 12×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• Morgan v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-15· cited 1,584×
• Murphy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 1,568×
• State v. Antwine
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-12-15· cited 533×
• Dennis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1950-05-01· cited 468×
• State v. Shurn
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1993-12-21· cited 205×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-04-26· cited 186×
• State v. Leisure
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1988-04-19· cited 120×
• State v. Kreutzer
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1996-08-20· cited 114×
• State v. Nicklasson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1998-03-24· cited 86×
• State v. Garrett
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-02-09· cited 82×
• State v. Wacaser
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1990-07-31· cited 79×
• Morford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1950-04-10· cited 77×
• State v. Betts
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-02-23· cited 76×
• State v. Granberry
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1972-09-11· cited 67×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1977-03-14· cited 56×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1988-04-19· cited 54×
• Littell v. Bi-State Transit Development Agency
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1967-11-21· cited 46×