Fernandez v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis
286 F.3d 1073 · 2002
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Taylor v. Maddox (2004), Williams v. Woodford (2002)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Powers v. Ohio · Huddleston v. United States · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler · United States v. Bishop
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e should not even consider the prosecutor’s unsubstantiated explanations at the stage of determining whether a prima facie case exists.”). Strikingly, the trial court itself appears to have recognized as much, as it described the strike of R.O. as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shirley v. Yates“a strong likelihood that such persons are being challenged because of their group association rather than because of any specific bias.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Runnels“the Constitution forbids striking even a single prospective juror for a discriminatory purpose,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boyd v. Newland
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.