State v. Batson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 249 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Amfac, Inc. v. Waikiki Beachcomber Investment Co. (1992), State v. Okumura (1995)
3 federal appellate · 249 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 State v. Jendrusch · State v. Lima · State v. Nelson · State v. Sadino · State v. Dow
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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“credible evidence which is of sufficient quality and probative value to enable a person of reasonable caution to support a conclusion.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Okumura · State v. Eastman“[g]iven the difficulty of proving the requisite state of mind by direct evidence in criminal cases, [the Hawai#i Supreme Court] ha[s] consistently held that . . . proof by circumstantial evidence and reasonable inferences arising from circumstances surrounding the defendant's conduct is sufficient.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Staley · State v. Stocker“(a) A person acts knowingly with respect to his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is of that nature. ib) A person acts knowingly with respect to attendant circumstances when he is aware that such circumstances exist. (c) A person acts knowingly with respect to . a result of his conduct when he is aware that it is practically certain that his conduct will cause such a result. H.R.S. § 702-206(2).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.