State v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably State v. Young (1985), State v. Bondurant (1983)
106 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Washington v. Davis · Swain v. State of Alabama · Duncan v. State of Louisiana
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fact that a particular jury or a series of juries does not statistically reflect the racial composition of the community does not in itself make out an invidious discrimination forbid den by the [equal protection] clause. ‘A purpose to discriminate must be present which may be proven by a systematic exclusion of eligible jurymen of the prescribed race, or by unequal application of the law to such an extent as to show intentional discrimination.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Avery · State v. Bowman“when asked whether they could comply with the court's instructions and impose the death penalty if the evidence so required; held, trial court did not err in allowing State's challenge for cause because phrasing of jurors' negative responses did”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brogden“not equivocate their refusal to follow the law as given by the [court] to such an extent as to make their challenge for cause improper”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brogden
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.