25 Va. App. 745 - Lewis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2019
6 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 · Powers v. Ohio · Ford v. Georgia · State v. Parker · Government of Virgin Islands v. Forte
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The trial court is uniquely positioned to evaluate the circumstances in each case and to exercise its discretion" in deciding whether to reseat persons improperly struck from the jury panel or to discharge the venire and select a jury from a new panel. A trial court's exercise of discretion may be improperly cabined, however, if the challenge is made after the jury is sworn and the remaining venirepersons are discharged. At that point, the court cannot reseat a juror improperly stricken, and discharging the venire and beginning the process of jury selection anew may be compelled under the circumstances. Such a result will generally serve neither the public policy Batson seeks to advance, nor the fair administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The United States Supreme Court has not specifically defined temporal parameters for the making of a Batson motion. Instead, the Court has left to the lower courts the decision to adopt timeliness rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he requirement that any Batson claim be raised not only before trial, but in the period between the selection of the jurors and the administration of their oaths, is a sensible rule”
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.