514 So. 2d 374 - Pearson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2001
14 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 · Swain v. State of Alabama · Griffith v. Kentucky · Allen v. Hardy · 457 So. 2d 481 - State v. Neil
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e see no difference, in terms of the equal protection clause, between the striking of the only one black juror and the striking of the only two black jurors or the striking of the only three black jurors, or more.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... for the holding of a Batson hearing with instructions that if the trial court finds that the state has not met its burden of providing a recially neutral explanation for the exercise of its challenge in this case, the trial court should set aside the appellant's convictions and order a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johans v. State“established a prima facie case of racial discrimination violative of the fourteenth amendment based on the state's use of a peremptory challenge to strike the only representative of [defendant's] race from the jury venire ...”
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.