Witcher v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 725 · 1969
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2009 · most notably Carter v. Jury Commission of Greene County (1970), Patterson v. State (1975)
15 federal appellate · 5 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 Glasser v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Swain v. State of Alabama · Brown v. Allen · Smith v. Texas
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is obviously true that white people do not generally have the wide acquaintance among Negroes that they have among other white people. A failure of either the judge or the commissioners fully to acquaint themselves with all those eligible for jury duty can just as effectively result in racial discrimination as would conscious and deliberate invidious selection. Indeed, within the meaning of the Equal Protection Clause, such a failure has been equated with deliberate and purposeful discrimination.” See also, Hairston, supra.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“honesty, intelligence, and good demeanor, and suitable in all respects”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Stephens v. Cox · Hairston v. Cox“It is a simple truth of human nature that we usually find the 'best' people in our own image, including, unfortunately, our own pigmentation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hairston v. Cox
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.