State v. Bateman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

69 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “whether, after viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the [State], any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hall · State v. Davis

2. ““First, the defendant must raise a Bat-son challenge with regard to one or more specific venirepersons struck by the state and identify the cognizable racial group to which the venireperson or persons belong. The trial court will then require the state to come forward with reasonably specific and clear race-neutral explanations for the strike. Assuming the prosecutor is able to articulate an acceptable reason for the strike, the defendant will then need to show that the state’s proffered reasons for the strikes were merely pretextual and that the strikes were racially motivated.'””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Mosely · STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Respondent v. MAURICE D. JONES

3. “is limited to whether the State has introduced sufficient evidence for any reasonable juror to have been convinced of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Salmon · State v. Shigemura