Williams v. Runnels’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.3d 1102 · 2006
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 61 Cal. 4th 363 - People v. Scott (2015), 38 Cal. 4th 1096 - People v. Johnson (2006)
5 federal appellate · 9 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Washington v. Davis · Hernandez v. New York · Purkett v. Elem · Miller-El v. Dretke
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish [a prima facie] case, the defendant first must show that he is a member of a cognizable racial group, and that the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges to remove [members of a cognizable group] from the venire.... Second, the defendant is entitled to rely on the fact, as to which there can be no dispute, that peremptory challenges constitute a jury selection practice that permits “those to discriminate who are of a mind to discriminate.” Finally, the defendant must show that these facts and any other relevant circumstances raise an inference that the prosecutor used that practice to exclude the veniremen from the petit jury on account of their race.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Runnels“First, the defendant must make out a prima facie case by showing that the totality of the relevant facts gives rise to an inference of discriminatory purpose. Second, once the defendant has made out a prima facie case, the burden shifts to the State to explain adequately the racial exclusion by offering plausible race-neutral justifications for the strikes. Third, if a race-neutral explanation is tendered, the trial court must then decide ... whether the opponent of the strike has proved purposeful racial discrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Runnels“It does not matter that the prosecutor might have had good reasons ... what matters is the real reason they were stricken”) (internal punctuation omitted), cited in (Leon) Robinson, 878 A.2d at 1283 n. 20; Williams v. Runnels, 432 F.3d 1102, 1108 (9th Cir.2006) (the fact that the”
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.