Concepcion v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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35 state decisions

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

1. “and instructed the jury on its purpose.... An examination of the court's instructions which were given to the jury reveals that the matters contained in Tendered Instructions 1 and 2 were covered by the trial court. Concepcion, 567 N.E.2d at 789 . Forty days after Concepcion's opinion was handed down, the supreme court issued its decision in Spradiin v. State, 569 N.E.2d 948 (Ind:1991). That case”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Concepcion v. State

2. “There must be a practical method of choosing prospective jurors, The use of lists, whether they be property taxpayers or registered voters, so long as they represent a reasonable cross section of the people in the county, cannot be said to violate the rights of the accused, in the absence of showing that such use is made in a deliberate attempt to exclude certain groups from jury selection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bradley v. State

3. “1) that the group alleged to be excluded is a 'distinetive group' in the community; 2) that the representation of this group in jury venires is not fair and reasonable in relation to the number of such persons in the community; and 8) that this underrep-resentation is due to systematic exclusion of the group in the jury-selection process.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harvey v. State