Butler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State (1981), 471 So. 2d 485 - Faircloth v. State (1984)
85 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 Boykin v. Alabama · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Gilbert v. California
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The burden of proof is on the person attacking selection procedure to show 'the existence of purposeful discrimination' by the exclusion of Negroes on account of race from jury participation. . . . Purposeful discrimination may not be assumed or merely asserted. It must be proved." (Citations omitted).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clisby v. State · Elliott v. State“unless a gross abuse of the court's prerogative is shown”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`Venires drawn from the jury box made up in this manner unquestionably contained a smaller proportion of the Negro community than of the white community. But a defendant in a criminal case is not constitutionally entitled to demand a proportionate number of his race on the jury which tries him nor on the venire or jury roll from which petit jurors are drawn.”
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.