Ex Parte Bravo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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

1. ““Exclusion of venirepersons in violation of Adams and Witherspoon violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and a death sentence so imposed cannot be carried out.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Ex Parte Banks

2. “because he did not have the opportunity to have his constitutional issue reviewed in the light of the decision in Adams.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Black v. State

3. “[H]abeas corpus will lie only to review jurisdictional defects or denials of fundamental or constitutional rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Holmes v. Honorable Court of Appeals for the Third District