State v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2022
10 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 · Barker v. Wingo · Hernandez v. New York · Powers v. Ohio · Georgia v. McCollum
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had made a prima facie showing [became] moot.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because the trial justice below similarly ruled on the ultimate question of intentional discrimination, we need not determine whether the exclusion from the jury of the only black person in the jury panel establishes a prima facie showing that the prosecutor exercised the state's peremptory challenge on the basis of race. We instead need only determine whether the trial justice erred in accepting the prosecutor's race-neutral reason for excluding the prospective juror.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless the party on appeal clearly shows that the trial justice abused his or her discretion in ruling on the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Feole
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.