522 So. 2d 18 - State v. Slappy’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
287 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 292 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young (1989), Melbourne v. State (1996)
287 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Swain v. State of Alabama · McCleskey v. Kemp · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler
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 292 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Part of the trial judge's role is to evaluate both the credibility of the person offering the explanation as well as the credibility of the asserted reasons. These must be weighed in light of the circumstances of the case and the total course of the voir dire in question, as reflected in the record.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) alleged group bias not shown to be shared by the juror in question, (2) failure to examine the juror or perfunctory examination, assuming neither the trial court nor opposing counsel had questioned the juror, (3) singling the juror out for special questioning designed to evoke a certain response, (4) the prosecutor's reason is unrelated to the facts of the case, and (5) a challenge based on reasons equally applicable to juror [sic] who were not challenged.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dinkins v. State · Randall v. State“the issue is not whether several jurors have been excused because of their race, but whether any juror has been so excused, independent of any other.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Green v. State
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.