State v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “Finally, the defendant must show that these facts and any other relevant circumstances raise an inference that the prosecutor used that practice to exclude the veniremen from the petit jury on account of race. This combination of factors in the impaneling of the petit jury, as in the selection of the venire, raises the necessary inference of purposeful discrimination.”

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

2. “Because of the overwhelming number of blacks on the venire, most of those being challenged had to be black and possibly all those presented as prospective jurors were black.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 588 So. 2d 116 - State v. Velez

3. “to produce any relevant circumstances to raise an inference of misuse of peremptory challenges by the state.”

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