428 So. 2d 139 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 519 So. 2d 565 - Musgrove v. State (1986), 503 So. 2d 871 - Thompson v. State (1986)
33 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Miller v. State · Dunn v. State · 414 So. 2d 993 - Ex Parte Allen · 402 So. 2d 1088 - Flowers v. State
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Constitution does not require `an examination of the prosecutor's reason for the exercise of his challenge in any given case.' Swain , 380 U.S. at 221 , 85 S.Ct. at 836 . The fact that a district attorney used all of his strikes to exclude blacks from the jury venire does not constitute proof that there was a systematic exclusion of blacks, McCray v. State , 395 So.2d 1057 , 1059-60 (Ala.Cr.App. 1980), cert. denied, 395 So.2d 1062 (Ala. 1981); Carpenter v. State , 404 So.2d 89 , 95 (Ala.Cr.App. 1980), cert. quashed, 404 So.2d 100 (Ala. 1981); Watts v. State , 53 Ala. App. 518 , 301 So.2d 280 (1974). A presumption exists that the prosecutor is using his challenges to obtain a fair and impartial jury. This presumption is not overcome merely by showing that he used all his strikes to remove blacks from the jury. Swain , supra." Walker v. State , 428 So.2d 139 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`Although penal statutes are to be strictly construed, courts are not required to abandon common sense. Absent any indication to the contrary, the words must be given their ordinary and normal meaning.'"”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ankrom v. State · Vaughn v. State“'[F]urnishes' means to provide or supply and connotes a transfer of possession.”
4 later decisions 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.