Muniz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2018
11 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 Beck v. State of Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Castaneda v. Partida · Hernandez v. Texas · Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. the group allegedly underrepresented is a recognizable and distinct class; 2. a comparison of the percentage population of this class to the percentage of this class called to serve on the grand jury over a significant period of time reveals identifiable underrepresentation; and 3. the system of selecting grand jurors is susceptible to abuse or is not race neutral.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cantu v. State“‘Whether at that moment the facts and circumstances within the officer’s knowledge and of which [he] had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the [arrested person] had committed or was committing an offense.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrison v. State
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.