State v. Valdez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A challenge to an individual juror may be either peremptory or for cause. A challenge to an individual juror may be made only before the jury is sworn to try the action, except the court may, for good cause, permit it to be made after the juror is sworn but before any of the evidence is presented.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Valdez

2. “preventing] defendants from ‘sandbagging’ the prosecution by waiting until trial has concluded unsatisfactorily before insisting on an explanation for jury strikes[;]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Valdez

3. “a reason that makes sense, but a reason that does not deny equal protection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2010 UT App 136 - State v. Jackson