Dewberry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]hat appellant is black, the victim of the offense was white, and both of the State’s primary witnesses were white. Appellant and the State were each allotted ten peremptory strikes following the voir dire of the jury panel. The State peremptorily struck five of the six potential black venirepersons and used its remaining five strikes on whites. Appellant peremptorily struck ten white venirepersons. The jury consisted of eleven white jurors and one black juror.” Dewberry, 743 S.W.2d at 265 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dewberry v. State

2. “1. Defendant is a member of the black race, a cognizable racial group. 2. The State exercised peremptory challenges to remove from the venire panel some members of the Defendant’s racial group. 3. No facts or other relevant circumstances raised an inference that the State used peremptory challenges to exclude, from the panel, members of Defendant’s racial group solely on account of their race, or on account of the Defendant’s race...." (emphasis in original).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rousseau v. State