Commonwealth v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably People v. Novotny (2014), Commonwealth v. Oberle (2017)
43 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 · Neder v. United States · Swain v. State of Alabama · Smith v. Phillips · Brewer v. Williams
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e continue to adhere to the view that, for purposes of State law, the erroneous denial of a peremptory challenge requires automatic reversal, without a showing of prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[g]enerally ... error that 'necessarily render[s] a criminal trial fundamentally unfair or an unreliable vehicle for determining guilt or innocence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“eliminate those jurors perceived as harboring subtle biases with regard to the case, which were not elicited on voir dire or which do not establish legal cause for challenge,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Novotny
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.