Barner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The exercise of peremptory strikes has long been recognized as a procedure created to assist litigants in obtaining a fair and impartial jury and not an independent substantive right. The substantive right involved is the right to an impartial jury and peremptory strikes are merely one possible procedure that can be used to obtain such a jury. [Cits.]”

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

2. “Statutes that only govern the procedure of the courts are given retroactive effect absent an expressed intention to the contrary. [Cit.]”

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