Coleman v. Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1985 · most notably Turner v. Fouche (1970), Carter v. Jury Commission of Greene County (1970)
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 53 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 Hernandez v. Texas · Norris v. State of Alabama · Hill v. State of Texas · Reece v. State of Georgia · Eubanks v. State of Louisiana
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the evidence was in dispute regarding the inclusion of Negroes in the grand and petit jury venires in the county in which petitioner was indicted and tried, it appeared that no Negro served on the grand jury which indicted or the petit jury which convicted petitioner. It further appeared that up to the time of petitioner’s trial, no Negro had ever served on a grand jury panel and few, if any, Negroes had served on petit jury panels. This ‘testimony in itself made out a prima facie case of the denial of the equal protection which the Constitution guarantees.’ [Citation omitted.] In the absence of evidence adduced by the State adequate to rebut the prima facie case, petitioner was therefore entitled to have his conviction reversed. [Citations omitted.] ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This 'testimony in itself made out a prima facie case of the denial of the equal protection which the Constitution guarantees.' Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 587 , 591 [, 55 S.Ct. 579, 581, 79 L.Ed. 1074.] In the absence of evidence adduced by the State adequate to rebut the prima facie case, petitioner was therefore entitled to have his conviction reversed. Arnold v. North Carolina, 376 U.S. 773 [, 84 S.Ct. 1032, 12 L.Ed.2d 77;] Eubanks v. Louisiana, 356 U.S. 584 [, 78 S.Ct. 970, 2 L.Ed.2d 991;] Reece v. Georgia, 350 U.S. 85 , 87-88 [, 76 S.Ct. 167, 169, 100 L.Ed. 77;] Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 , 481 [, 74 S.Ct. 667, 671, 98 L.Ed. 866;] Hill v. Texas, 316 U.S. 400 , 406 [, 62 S.Ct. 1159, 1162, 86 L.Ed. 1559.]”
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.