112 Ill. App. 3d 799 - People v. Gilliard’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
December 2009
most recently cited
7 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Berger v. United States · Swain v. State of Alabama · Taylor v. Louisiana · Thomas v. Collins · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is an open secret that prosecutors in Chicago and elsewhere have been using their peremptory challenges to systematically eliminate all blacks, or all but token blacks, from juries in criminal cases where the defendants are blacks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Teague v. Lane
How this case has been treated — in progress
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