People v. Buford’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 1132 - People v. Howard (1992), 36 Cal. 3d 36 - People v. Harris (1984)
3 federal appellate · 34 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
Relies on Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Castaneda v. Partida
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.
“[t]he resulting disproportionate and consistent exclusion of women from the jury wheel and at the venire stage was quite obviously due to the system by which juries were selected. Petitioner demonstrated that the underrepresentation of women in the final pool of prospective jurors was due to the operation of Missouri's exemption criteria ... implemented in Jackson County. Women were therefore systematically underrepresented....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“between the percentage of adult blacks in the county (7.3 percent) and the percentage appearing on the various jury groups (0 to 3.7 percent). ( Id., at pp. 295-296, 299.) [2] Noting that the statistical evidence was not perfect, the court acknowledged that a defendant should not be required to exclude all possible and permissible explanations for the underrepresentation but that, in any event, the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“appellant's case [ did ] not rest upon statistics alone, he has presented evidence suggesting a plausible systematic explanation for some degree of disparity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.