Johnson v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “when there is reason to believe that there is a racial motivation for the challenge ... we are not bound” was a direct reference to the prosecutor's tacit admission that he was excluding members of the venire based on their ethnici ty, an integral element of the Johnson decision which is not present in the instant case. Second, the majority omits crucial language from the Johnson decision which bears on its relevance to the case at bar. Specifically, we noted that”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Collins v. Rice · Collins v. Rice

2. “First of all, I passed four times and allowed counsel to have whatever juror he wanted. Then as I saw him excluding people from particular races, notably Mr. Li, I decided that, one, I didn’t want a young woman ... on the jury because of her age; and two, she worked for defense attorneys and that was another reason why I excused her.... I felt [the juror] also was uneducated and evasive in her responses to my questions. But particularly since she worked for a defense attorney, and had done so for the past six months, I felt that for those reasons alone and not for any reasons of race, I would excuse her.”

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

3. “on the issue [of] whether a mixed-motive defense in Batson jury challenge cases is a valid one.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Kesser v. Cambra