Splunge v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 705 · 1992
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably United States v. Canoy (1994), 915 So. 2d 291 - State v. Juniors (2005)
21 federal appellate · 8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Strauder v. West Virginia · Delaware v. New York · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County · Avery v. State of Georgia
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an obvious mask for a race-based challenge”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“... “[T]his circuit has taken a deadly serious approach to Batson” [quoting the district court]. That is because exclusion of potential jurors on the basis of race causes deadly serious harm to the excluded citizen, the defendant, and our system of justice as a whole. (Citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.