Buck v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 243 - People v. Ayala (2000), Goode v. Shoukfeh (1997)
61 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 · Hernandez v. New York · Powers v. Ohio · Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. · United States v. Lane
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant must first establish a prima facie showing that the peremptory strike was made on the basis of race. At that point, the burden shifts to the prosecution to produce explanations for striking the juror which are race-neutral. Even if race-neutral, the reasons may be challenged by the defendant as pretextual. Finally, the trial court must decide whether the defendant has carried his burden of proving purposeful discrimination by the prosecutor in selecting the jury panel. On appeal, the trial court's findings will be reversed only if they are clearly erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“failure to raise these arguments before the trial court precludes him from raising them for the first time on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At trial, however, [the defendant] did not make the [ Batson ] arguments which he makes here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.