State v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably State v. Davis (1998), State v. Blakeney (2000)
3 federal appellate · 148 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Batson v. Kentucky · Gerstein v. Pugh · Wainwright v. Witt · Hernandez v. New York
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'so basic, so prejudicial, so lacking in its elements that justice cannot have been done[.]'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“unpreserved issues for plain error when . . . the issue involves either errors in the trial judge's instructions to the jury or rulings on the admissibility of evidence.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“A three-step process has been established for evaluating claims of racial discrimination in the prosecution’s use of peremptory challenges. First, defendant must establish a prima facie case that the peremptory challenge was exercised on the basis of race. Second, if such a showing is made, the burden shifts to the prosecutor to offer a racially neutral explanation to rebut defendant’s prima facie case. Third, the trial court must determine whether the defendant has proven purposeful discrimination.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.