Mahaffey v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.3d 481 · 1998
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Darryl Tolbert v. Glenda Page Parole Officer Interstate Parole Unit California Department of Corrections (1999), 30 Cal. 4th 1302 - People v. Johnson (2004)
33 federal appellate · 4 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Ornelas v. United States · Hernandez v. New York · Doerr v. Doerr · Avery v. State of Georgia
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he preliminary question of whether a prima facie case has been shown presents a mixed question of law and fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he question of whether an inference of discrimination may be drawn from a set of undisputed facts relating to the ... makeup of the jury venire and the prosecutor's exercise of peremptory challenges is ... one over which the appellate courts should exercise a degree of control that a clear error standard would not afford.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f an excused African-American had characteristics and opinions that were similar to those of a juror who sat, for example, then an obvious inference ... would be that the strike was racially motivated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henderson v. Walls
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.