Commonwealth v. Curtiss’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Gutierrez v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (2002), Commonwealth v. Garrey (2002)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Powers v. Ohio · Purkett v. Elem · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That presumption may be rebutted, however, if it is shown that (1) there is a pattern of excluding members of a discrete group; and (2) it is likely that individuals are being excluded solely because of their membership in this group.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sorting out whether a permissible or impermissible reason underlies a peremptory challenge is the function of the trial judge, and we do not substitute our judgment for his if there is support for it on the record”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A single peremptory challenge can constitute a prima facie showing that rebuts the presumption of proper use.”
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.