Trevino v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Rachal v. State (1996), Trevino v. Johnson (1999)
28 federal appellate · 45 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 · Teague v. Lane · Swain v. State of Alabama · Griffith v. Kentucky · Powers v. Ohio
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prosecution ... historically and habitually uses its peremptory challenges to strike black people and other minorities who are otherwise qualified .... This practice deprives the Accused of a jury representing a fair cross-section of the community in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rosales v. Dretke
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.