Sewell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 729 So. 2d 203 - Burns v. State (1998), 829 So. 2d 29 - Kolberg v. State (2002)
35 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Hernandez v. New York · Georgia v. McCollum · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Rivera v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here ... a prospective juror in a criminal case fails to respond to a relevant, direct, and unambiguous question presented by defense counsel on voir dire, although having knowledge of the information sought to be elicited, the trial court should, upon motion [a] for a new trial, determine [ (1) ] whether the question propounded to the juror was ... relevant to the voir dire examination; (2) whether [the question] was unambiguous; and (3) whether the juror had substantial knowledge of the information sought to be elicited. If the trial court’s determination of these inquiries is in the affirmative, the court should then determine if prejudice to the defendant in selecting the jury reasonably could be inferred from the juror’s failure to respond. If prejudice reasonably could be inferred, then a new trial should be ordered.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Magee v. State · Carter v. State“[T]hough the sheer number of strikes exercised against a cognizable group of jurors is not itself dispositive of our analysis, `the relative strength of the prima facie case of purposeful discrimination will often influence this inquiry' into Batson challenges.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]videntiary rulings are affirmed unless they affect a substantial right of the complaining party.”
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.