39 Cal. 3d 596 - People v. Motton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), 2 Cal. 4th 629 - People v. Clair (1992)
8 federal appellate · 75 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 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler · Davis v. Alaska · Peters v. Kiff · 35 Cal. 3d 329 - People v. Fields · 35 Cal. 3d 161 - People v. Hall
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.
“`... "[T]he exclusion from jury service of a substantial and identifiable class of citizens has a potential impact that is too subtle and too pervasive to admit of confinement to particular issues or particular cases ... when any large and identifiable segment of the community is excluded from jury service, the effect is to remove from the jury room qualities of human nature and varieties of human experience, the range of which is unknown and perhaps unknowable .... We are simply not in a position to make fine judgments as to the fungibility of identifiable segments of the community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[w]here Blacks comprise a significant portion of the population ... black women are a vital part of that "ideal cross-section of the community”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`ignores the fact that other members of the group may have been excluded for improper, racially motivated reasons.'”
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.