227 Ga. App. 778 - McKenzie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2011
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 Batson v. Kentucky · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Hernandez v. New York · Purkett v. Elem · Georgia v. McCollum
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he trial court in most cases must infer discriminatory intent from circumstantial evidence. “The factfinder’s disbelief of the reasons put forward [for the strike] (particularly if disbelief is accompanied by a suspicion of mendacity) may, together with the elements of the prima facie case, suffice to show intentional discrimination. Thus, rejection of the . . . proffered reasons!) will permit the trier of fact to infer the ultimate fact of intentional discrimination, and ... no additional proof of discrimination is required.” [Cit.] (Emphasis omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State · Nelson v. State“In determining whether a strike was in fact racially motivated, the trial court sits as the trier of fact, and its findings are entitled to great deference and will be affirmed unless clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial judge ... alone has the opportunity to observe the witnesses' testimony and evaluate their credibility”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.