State v. MacK’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We do not understand the law to be that an indictment, which is an accusation only, must be set aside because members of a defendant’s race have been intentionally included in the grand jury list. Such a rule would make it virtually impossible to legally impanel a grand jury under a system of selection which requires an investigation of competency and a weighing of qualifications. Under such a system, knowledge of a prospective juror’s race on the part of the Jury Commission is inevitable.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Barksdale

2. ““The law is well settled that a defendant is denied the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment if he is indicted by a grand jury or tried by a petit jury from which members of his race have been excluded because of their race. Such racial discrimination is likewise prohibited by state law. The law requires that a jury be selected without regard to race. This Court has recognized and applied these principles.” (footnotes omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Curry

3. “"Persons jointly indicted shall be jointly tried, unless the district attorney elect[s] to place such persons separately upon trial, or unless the court, upon motion of defendant, shall, after a hearing contradictorily with the district attorney, order a severance." [1]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Page