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← 477 MASS 307 - Commonwealth v. Jones

Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

22 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · Miller-El v. Dretke · South Dakota v. Neville · Strauder v. West Virginia

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “whether those excluded are members of the same protected group as the defendant or the victim”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the possibility of an objective group-neutral explanation for the strike”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “the number and percentage of group members who have been excluded”
    4 later decisions 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.