Winfield v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
March 1996
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Scharffe v. Perkins · Marquez v. Texas · 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · Gray v. Commonwealth
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Batson places upon the trial courts the burden of weighing the explanations tendered by prosecutors justifying their use of peremptory strikes, assessing their genuineness, and determining whether they bespeak discriminatory motives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“facts and any other relevant circumstances [which may tend to explain why the prosecutor exercised the peremptory challenges] 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“probably possessed limited education... might not have been correct, but it is consistent with common experience.”
1 later decision 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.