Batson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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

1. “[W]e were of the view that the court, rather than a jury, can best achieve the purpose of deterrence of impermissible police conduct. As Chief Justice Traynor so aptly stated: A jury verdict of guilty or not guilty tells the police nothing about the jury’s evaluation of the police conduct ... Moreover, even when the verdict settles the issue of entrapment in the particular case, it “cannot give significant guidance for official conduct for the future. Only the court, through the gradual evolution of explicit standards in accumulated precedents, can do this with the degree of certainty that wise administration of criminal justice demands.””

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

2. “those measures which, objectively considered, are likely to provoke to the commission of crime only those persons, and not others, who are ready and willing to commit a criminal offense.”

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