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← 167 VA 472 - Clark v. Commonwealth

Clark v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1937

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 1966
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Norris v. State of Alabama · Rufus Martin v. State of Texas · Patterson v. Commonwealth

Most-quoted passages

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  1. ““The Supreme Court of the United States has settled beyond controversy the proposition that the exclusion of all negroes from the grand jury by which a negro is indicted, or from the petit jury by which he is tried, solely because of their race or color, is a denial of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed to him by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. Norris v. Alabama, 294 U. S. 587, 589 , 55 S. Ct. 579 , 79 L. ed. 1074, and cases there cited.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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