457 So. 2d 481 - State v. Neil’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 432 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 454 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Georgia v. McCollum (1992)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 432 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Glasser v. United States · Swain v. State of Alabama · Taylor v. Louisiana · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · 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 454 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party concerned about the other side's use of peremptory challenges must make a timely objection and demonstrate on the record that the challenged persons are members of a distinct racial group and that there is a strong likelihood that they have been challenged solely because of their race.”
59 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Pickett v. State · Tennie v. State“solely as a scalpel to excise a distinct racial group from a representative cross section of society.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he state, no less than a defendant, is entitled to an impartial jury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Elliott v. State · Fields v. People
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.