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Ex Parte Penn’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
January 1995
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Griffith v. Kentucky · United States v. Johnson · MacKey v. United States

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “held as a matter of Alabama constitutional law that this ' Batson test' would be applied retroactively to cases pending on direct appeal.”
    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.