Lawrence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably 457 So. 2d 481 - State v. Neil (1984), 97 Ill. 2d 252 - People v. Williams (1983)
5 federal appellate · 37 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Taylor v. Louisiana · Castaneda v. Partida · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler · Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In short, the right to exercise the peremptory strike is unfettered and may be exercised by either party for any reason or indeed for no reason. Hunch, passing impression, appearance of the prospective juror, or any other consideration may lead to the exercise of the peremptory challenge and no inquiry may be made in regard to why it is exercised.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Those portions of the Maryland Constitution and Declaration of Rights [which] afford protection to its citizens against unreasonable or arbitrary discrimination in like manner and to the same extent as the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we do not hold that there may never be a violation of the fourteenth amendment through the prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stanley v. State
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.