29 Cal. 4th 381 - People v. Boyette’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
395 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 407 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 34 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Coffman (2004), 38 Cal. 4th 491 - People v. Avila (2006)
395 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 · Purkett v. Elem · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
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 407 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a prosecutor has offered a race-neutral explanation for the peremptory challenges and the trial court has ruled on the ultimate question of intentional discrimination, the preliminary issue of whether the defendant had made a prima facie showing becomes moot.”
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.