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.
“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“[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“[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.