Gamble v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 517 So. 2d 1346 - Lockett v. State (1987), Mallory v. State (1991)
167 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 · Duren v. Missouri · Wayte v. United States · Pope v. State · Jordan 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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The explanation offered for striking each black juror must be evaluated in light of the explanations offered for the prosecutor's other peremptory strikes, and as well, in light of the strength of the prima facie case. The persuasiveness of a proffered explanation may be magnified or diminished by the persuasiveness of companion explanations, and by the strength of the prima facie case."”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ex Parte Bird · Mallory v. State“"`[R]ubber stamp' approval of all nonracial explanations, no matter how whimsical or fanciful, would cripple Batson's commitment to `ensure that no citizen is disqualified from jury service because of his race.' Batson , 106 SC at 1723." [ Gamble, supra [257 Ga.] at 327, [ 357 S.E.2d 792 ], quoting from State v. Butler, 731 SW2d 265 (Mo.App. 1987).]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hayes v. State · Mallory v. State“[Cits.] In order to rebut a prima facie case of racial discrimination in the exercise of peremptories, the prosecutor must explain each peremptory challenge of a black prospective juror. The explanation”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.