168 W. Va. 13 - State v. Hobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2013
22 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Allen v. United States · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Castaneda v. Partida
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]o establish a prima facie case of unconstitutional jury selection methods under the Sixth Amendment’s fair cross-section requirement, the defendant must show (1) that the group alleged to be excluded is a “distinctive” group in the community; (2) that the representation of this group in venires from which juries are selected is not fair and reasonable in relation to the number of such persons in the community; and (3) that this underrepresentation is due to systematic exclusion of the group in the jury-selection process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The trial court must carefully instruct the jurors not to give up their conscientious convictions merely for the sake of achieving a verdict, and must scrupulously avoid expressing any opinion as to how the case should be decided. The trial court decision to so instruct the jury must neither encourage disagreement nor coerce agreement, State v. Taft, 144 W.Va. 704 , 110 S.E.2d 727 (1959), but should foster the jury’s fair and open-minded debate.” 168 W.Va. at 37 , 282 S.E.2d at 272 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“And if you are alone or in a small minority, should you not ask yourself whether the thing you cling to as a conscientious conviction might in fact be only a mistake in judgment, and whether the great majority of your fellow jurors, who took the same oath as you took as a juror, and who have consciences to satisfy the same as you have, might be right and you wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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