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← 675 SO2D 996 - Mejia v. State

Mejia v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
July 1999
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Lewis v. United States · Pointer v. United States · Miller v. Gentry · Steinhorst v. State

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that the procedural rule set out in Coney is intended to ensure that a defendant's right to meaningful participation in decisions regarding the exercise of challenges, particularly peremptory challenges, is zealously protected.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he exercise of peremptory challenges has been held to be essential to the fairness of a trial by jury and has been described as one of the most important rights secured to a defendant.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[t]he defendant has a right to be physically present at the immediate site where pretrial juror challenges are exercised.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.