State v. Beach’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]o establish such a case, the defendant first must show that he is a member of a cognizable racial group, . . . and that the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges to remove from the venire members of the defendant’s race. Second, the defendant is entitled to rely on the fact, as to which there can be no dispute, that peremptory challenges constitute a jury selection practice that permits “those to discriminate who are of a mind to discriminate.” . . . Finally, the defendant must show that these facts and any other relevant circumstances raise an inference that the prosecutor used that practice to exclude the veniremen from the petit jury on account of their race.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 114 N.C. App. 385 - State v. Degree

2. “Would he have the capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct and conform to the requirements of law as with most of your population in a given situation?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hipps

3. “defendant was able to elicit substantial evidence of a similar nature[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 N.C. App. 731 - State v. Mendoza