State v. McLean’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2025
7 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 · Swain v. State of Alabama · Ross v. Oklahoma · Georgia v. McCollum · Pointer v. United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [this Court] were to accept the actual prejudice rule, the trial court’s errors would become unreviewable because the focus of the appellate inquiry would not be on the court's error, but on the qualifications of the juror subject to the lost peremptory challenge. The whole purpose of peremptoiy challenges is to allow each party an opportunity to dismiss a fixed number of jurors without cause or explanation. The faulty denial of that opportunity creates prejudice that should need no elucidation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“How can an appellate court determine the degree of harm resulting from the participation of any particular juror in the jury's deliberations? There is no record of jury deliberations. Whether you place the burden upon the State (the peremptory challenge error did not affect the jury verdict) or upon the defendant (the defendant was prejudiced by the presence of a particular juror on the jury), the bearer of the burden of persuasion would likely fail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the basic structural integrity of the criminal tribunal itself . .. and is not amenable to harmless-error review,” State v. Reiners, 644 N.W.2d 118, 127 (Minn.Ct.App.2002) (internal quotations omitted). See also ROGER J. TRAYNOR, THE RIDDLE OF THE HARMLESS ERROR 64-66 (1970) (a defendant challenging the denial of the right to peremptory challenges could not possibly show prejudice, and the appellant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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