213 Ga. App. 450 - Rector v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Payton v. Kearse (1998), State v. Lucas (2001)
4 federal appellate · 24 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Gamble v. State · Davis v. State · Hill v. State
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.
“[The trial court erred in ruling that other purportedly race neutral explanations cured the element of the stereotypical reasoning employed by the State's attorney in exercising a peremptory strike.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Even though [appellee's counsel] may have given one racially neutral explanation, the racially motivated explanation "vitiates the legitimacy of the entire (jury selection) procedure”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hile we realize that it is unrealistic to expect trial counsel to put aside every improper influence when selecting a juror, we conclude that is exactly what the law requires”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gill
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.