595 So. 2d 848 - Scott v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 954 So. 2d 968 - Ross v. State (2007), 650 So. 2d 1289 - MacK v. State (1994)
47 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Griffith v. Kentucky · Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. · Wrenn v. Gould · Washington v. Harper
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“jurors take their oaths and responsibilities seriously, and when a prospective juror assures the court that, despite the circumstance that raises some question as to his qualification, this will not affect his verdict, this promise is entitled to considerable deference.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]election of jurors [is] a judgment call peculiarly within the province of the circuit judge, and ... we will not on appeal second guess [that judgment] in the absence of a record showing a clear abuse of discretion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“The circuit judge, as he must, has wide discretion in determining whether to excuse any prospective juror, including one challenged for cause.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Adkins v. Sanders · Heaney v. Hewes
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.