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← 970 SW2D 1 - Raby v. State

Raby v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Adolfo Gil Hernandez v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (2000), Moore v. State (1999)

2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions

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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 Teague v. Lane · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Gardner v. Florida · Adams v. Texas · Morgan v. Illinois

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

  1. “The Sixth Amendment guarantee to trial by an impartial jury includes the right to have jurors that can follow the law and consider the evidence. In other words, the jury must be able to make an independent determination based on the facts presented at trial, not on any personal opinions they may have.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[p]erversely ... prohibits the judge from letting the jury know when the defendant will become eligible for parole if he is not sentenced to death.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “[T]he right to propound questions on voir dire, in order to intelligently exercise peremptory challenges, is of the greatest importance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.