Commonwealth v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t would have been well within the judge's discretion to require an explanation, even without finding a pattern. Such questioning could have facilitated our task on appeal ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“young adults are not considered a discrete protected group for the purposes of Batson - Soares peremptory challenges and may be excluded”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“two significant experiences with the law provided a sufficient and obvious basis for the prosecutor's peremptory challenge”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.