Farrell v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 7 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Batson clearly limited its application to defendants of the same race as the excluded jurors,”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 195 W. Va. 163 - State Ex Rel. Azeez v. Mangum · Cedric Eagle v. Leland Linahan

2. “complete departure” from the rules in Batson because it did not require the defendant raising the equal protection challenge to be of the same race as the excluded jurors). We acknowledge that since Eagle is a black man and was challenging the prosecution's use of the State’s peremptory strikes to exclude blacks from the jury, the decision in Powers did not alter his standing to bring the Batson challenge. The effect of Powers in this case was simply to reduce the showing Eagle needed to make in the trial court when raising the equal protection challenge to that of”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eagle v. Linahan · Cedric Eagle v. Leland Linahan

3. “Teague applies when the Supreme Court announces a new rule of criminal procedure. Essentially, if a decision announces a “new rule” of criminal procedure, it is not to be applied retroactively to convictions that have already become final when the decision is announced.... A decision announces a new rule if it breaks new ground, imposes new obligations on the states or federal government, or was not dictated by precedent existing at the time the defendant’s conviction became final.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coe v. Bell