Carter v. Jury Commission of Greene County’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
272 federal appellate · 20 district · 379 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 938 later decisions (73 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Roe v. Wade (1973)
272 federal appellate · 20 district · 379 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 243 · 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Brown v. Allen · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Strauder v. West Virginia
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 938 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It has long been accepted that the Constitution does not forbid the States to prescribe relevant qualifications for their jurors. The States remain free to confine the selection to citizens, to persons meeting specified qualifications of age and educational attainment, and to those possessing good intelligence, sound judgment, and fair character. `Our duty to protect the federal constitutional rights of all does not mean we must or should impose on states our conception of the proper source of jury lists, so long as the source reasonably reflects a cross-section of the population suitable in character and intelligence for that civic duty.'"”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has long been accepted that the Constitution does not forbid the States to prescribe relevant qualifications for their jurors. The States remain free to confine the selection to citizens, to persons meeting specified qualifications of age and educational attainment, and to those possessing good intelligence, sound judgment, and fair character.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 21. Qualifications of persons on jury roll; encasing certain persons from service. — The jury commission shall place on the jury roll and in the jury box the names of all citizens of the county who are generally reputed to be honest and intelligent and are esteemed in the community for their integrity, good character and sound judgment * *”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colson v. Smith · State v. Silva
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.