State v. Sexton’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Lavers (1991), State v. Hill (1993)
30 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 Ross v. Oklahoma · State v. Rose · State v. Thompson · Wasko v. Frankel · State v. Orduno
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right of a party to peremptory challenges is a substantial right of which he should not be deprived____ Peremptory challenges form an effective method of assuring the fairness of a jury trial. Hence, forcing a party to use his peremptory challenges to strike jurors who should have been stricken for cause denies the litigant a substantial right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Huerta · State v. Ramos“surpass[es] the definition of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lara
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.