State v. Elbert’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably State v. McCarthy (1985), State v. Weitzman (1981)
29 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 Glasser v. United States · Hamling v. United States · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) that the group alleged to be excluded is a ‘distinctive’ group in the community; (2) that the representation of this group in venires from which juries are selected is not fair and reasonable in relation to the number of such persons in the community; and (3) that this underrepresentation is due to systematic exclusion of the group in the jury-selection process.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vanguilder“assuming arguendo that young people are a 'cognizable' class ... [o]n the basis of these statistics, we do not find that young people are underrepresented to an unconstitutional degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such men and women ... as they judge eligible to serve as jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.