State v. Varner’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Maritime Overseas Corp. v. Hae Woo Youn · State v. Murphy · United States of America Ex Rel. James C. Haynes v. Charles L. McKendrick Warden, Wallkill State Prison, Walkill, New York · Miller v. State of North Carolina
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases where race should be irrelevant, racial considerations, in particular, can affect a juror's impartiality and must be removed from courtroom proceedings to the fullest extent possible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clifton · State v. Monday“To raise the issue of race is to draw the jury's attention to a characteristic that the Constitution generally commands us to ignore. Even a reference that is not derogatory may carry impermissible connotations, or may trigger prejudiced responses in the listeners that the speaker might neither have predicted nor intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Monday“if you were to walk down that street [in the neighborhood where the crime was committed] being a white person and if you were not either beat up or robbed.” 643 N.W.2d at 302 . We concluded that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Evans
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.