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8 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 53 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Hatten v. State.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hatten v. State Anchor | green | “make an on-the-record, factual determination, of the merits of the reasons cited by the state for its use of peremptory challenges against potential jurors.” | 19 |
| 2 | Sudduth v. State | green | “in the absence of an actual proffer of evidence by the defendant to rebut the state's neutral explanations, this court may not reverse on this point.” | 8 |
| 3 | Coleman v. State | green | “the trial judge may base his decision only on the reasons given by the state.” | 7 |
| 4 | Carr v. State | green | “thus, it is this court's role to inquire into whether there is any credible evidence upon which the jury could find the aggravating circumstance in question.” | 6 |
| 5 | Welch v. State | green | “were extremely unpleasant and used in such a way as to be overly prejudicial and inflammatory.” | 4 |
| 6 | Thorson v. State | green | “a trial court's determination of whether or not a reason is race-neutral largely depends on the credibility of the prosecutor.” | 3 |
| 7 | Harper v. State | green | “a prosecutor may sense by a juror's demeanor that he is hostile to being in court and thus fear that the juror might respond negatively to the prosecution simply because the government was responsible for calling him to jury duty.” | 3 |
| 8 | Chandler v. State | green | “there is no method by which the out-of-state witness can be paid and that the trial court was without authority to force a witness for the defense to leave a foreign state to testify in this state.” | 3 |
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