Walker v. Girdich’s Empirical Analysis
410 F.3d 120 · 2005
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2022
3 federal appellate ·
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 Batson v. Kentucky · Hernandez v. New York · United States v. Vasquez-Lopez · Jenkins v. Artuz · Jones v. Ryan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prosecutor's statements that [prospective juror] 'was black' and . . . had 'no family' were merely descriptive”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under Batson and its progeny, striking even a single juror for a discriminatory purpose is unconstitutional”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Travis“the prosecutor's words and phrasing adduce[d] these characteristics as grounds for the peremptory challenge”
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.