536 So. 2d 127 - Mason v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2015
16 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Garlitz v. State · 445 So. 2d 1190 - State v. Davenport · Chavez v. United States · 30 Md. App. 334 - Tisdale v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a] juror . . . who will unquestionably credit the testimony of law enforcement officers over that of defense witnesses is not competent to serve'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“' Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 202, 219 [ 85 S.Ct. 824 , 13 L.Ed.2d 759 ] (1965). Since the defendants were required to use peremptory challenges in order to eliminate the three venirepersons who had properly been challenged for cause, their total number of peremptories was effectively reduced by three. Tisdale [v. State, 30 Md.App. 334 , 353 A.2d 653, 657 (1976) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The denial or impairment of the right [to peremptory challenges] is reversible error without a showing of prejudice.”
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.