Commonwealth v. Prunty’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Hernandez v. New York · Taylor v. Louisiana · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he test in Soares and Batson does not apply to challenges to members of all minority ethnic or racial groups lumped together, but instead applies to challenges to 'particular, defined groupings in the community.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“we rely on the good judgment of the trial courts to distinguish bona fide reasons for such [challenges] from sham excuses belatedly contrived to avoid admitting facts of group discrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“certainly are going to perhaps get under the skin of somebody who might be a little bit more sensitive to that issue, particularly where that is their descent.”
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.