Commonwealth v. Arriaga’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Goodreau (2004), Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk District Commonwealth v. Roberio (2015)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1869
Relies on Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Castaneda v. Partida · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler · Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendants each argue that their respective counsel rendered ineffective assistance in failing to preserve error and to pursue and develop the motions to dismiss the venire. Little is offered by either defendant to support these contentions. As discussed above, there is no basis for us to conclude that the claimed underrepresentation of Hispanics was substantial or resulted from systematic exclusion in the jury selection process. The defendants have not demonstrated that trial counsel erred in failing to pursue the motions to dismiss the venire and have not demonstrated a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A defendant must do more than assess a small subsection of the venire present on a particular day in order to show that the group allegedly discriminated against is not fairly and reasonably represented in the venires in relation to its proportion of the community. A defendant must present evidence of a statistically significant sample, usually requiring analysis of the composition of past venires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[W]e do not apply the absolute disparity test mechanically.... ”). 19 . That being said, applying the comparative disparity mode of analysis in a case involving a small minority population runs the risk of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.