137 Ill. 2d 430 - People v. Hope’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 142 Ill. 2d 258 - People v. Henderson (1990), 194 Ill. 2d 186 - People v. Chapman (2000)
104 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 Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Batson v. Kentucky · Teague v. Lane · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio
Most-quoted passages
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“"To create a pattern, strikes should do more than occasionally involve venire members of a certain race. The strikes should affect those members to such a degree or with such a lack of apparent nonracial explanation as to suggest the possibility of racial motivation.” Hope, 137 Ill. 2d at 463 , 560 N.E.2d at 864 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“highly relevant” that the excluded venire members shared a common characteristic besides being of the same race. 3 The fifth factor our supreme court has identified as important to establishing a prima facie determination is the level of African-American representation in the venire as compared to the jury. In this case, the percentage of African-Americans in the venire panel was approximately 32% (9 of 28), while the percentage of African-Americans on the petit jury was 23% (3 of 13). Our supreme court has identified such a 9% difference as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““not only would a defendant’s Batson-conferred ability to make such a case be impaired in the first place, but also it is likely that the explanations themselves would be judged less rigorously than if they had to measure up to Batson standards of specificity and neutrality in order to meet a prima facie case already established.” (Hope, 137 Ill. 2d at 456-57 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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