McGinnis v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
181 F.3d 686 · 1999
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2025
6 federal appellate · 5 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 · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Castaneda v. Partida · Peters v. Kiff
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first step is to establish that the group is one that is a recognizable, distinct class.... Next, the degree of un-derrepresentation must be proved, by comparing the proportion of the group in the total population to the proportion called to serve as ... jurors, over a significant period of time.... Finally, ... a selection procedure that is susceptible of abuse ... supports the presumption of discrimination raised by the statistical showing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.