Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Giles v. State (1962), Day v. State (1950)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 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 Norris v. State of Alabama · Smith v. Texas · Neal v. Delaware · Pierre v. State of Louisiana · Bush v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is not the mere fact that they are [black] and their names omitted from the jury lists that determines the question of prejudice, but it must appear from some substantial evidence that the manner and practice of selecting jurors shows that [blacks] are intentionally excluded. When this appears, prejudice is inferred.” (Citations omitted; emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawrence v. State“[t]he judge may tell [the jury] what he thinks the law is, but he must tell them it is merely advisory and they are not bound to follow it, [but] any erroneous advice or opinion given or expressed by him will be ground of reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillon v. State
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.