State v. Alen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 38 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “First, the group's population should be large enough that the general community recognizes it as an identifiable group in the community. Second, the group should be distinguished from the larger community by an internal cohesiveness of attitudes, ideas, or experiences that may not be adequately represented by other segments of society.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 929 So. 2d 1176 - Olibrices v. State · 636 So. 2d 777 - Joseph v. State

2. “[t]he time now has come in Florida to extend Neil to protect potential jurors from being excluded from the jury solely on the basis of ethnicity. ... To satisfy the state's constitutional guarantee of an impartial jury, citizens who are otherwise qualified to serve as impartial jurors cannot be peremptorily challenged based on their membership in a particular ethnic group.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 636 So. 2d 777 - Joseph v. State · 642 So. 2d 542 - Abshire v. State

3. “the cognizability requirement inherently demands that the group be objectively discernible from the rest of the community.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 929 So. 2d 1176 - Olibrices v. State · 636 So. 2d 777 - Joseph v. State