State v. Begay’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2019
18 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Purkett v. Elem · State v. Garcia · State v. Apodaca · State v. Parish
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the prosecutor's explanation was accepted by the [district] court as facially valid[,] ... [and the d]efendant's counsel neither challenged the prosecutor's professed reason for striking [the prospective juror] nor otherwise showed that the prosecutor intentionally discriminated”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dorado“A peremptory challenge that is found to be valid on its face stands unless the defendant comes forward with a refutation of the stated reason-e.g., by challenging its factual basis-or proof of purposeful discrimination by the prosecutor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dorado“evidence which `reasonably tends to show that defendant's claimed intoxication rendered him [or her] incapable of acting in a purposeful way,' an instruction on diminished capacity is warranted”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Balderama
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.