Simmons v. Beyer’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.3d 1160 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Dia v. Ashcroft (2003), 226 Ill. 2d 135 - People v. Houston (2007)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 · Barker v. Wingo · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Teague v. Lane
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant must establish a pri-ma facie case that the prosecution purposefully exercised peremptory • challenges in a racially discriminatory manner; (2) if the defendant successfully establishes a prima facie ease, the prosecution must articulate race-neutral explanations for striking specific jurors; and (3) the court must then determine whether the defendant has established a showing of purposeful discrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he nature of the crime and its racial configuration — the murder and robbery of an elderly Caucasian physician by a young African-American man — contribute significantly to [defendant's] prima facie case”). 41 . Petitioner’s numerical determination regarding the peremptory challenges against African-Americans is derived from”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) how many members of the cognizable racial group are in the venire panel from which the petit jury is chosen (2) the nature of the crime (3) the race of the defendant and the victim (4) the pattern of strikes against racial group jurors in the particular venire (5) the prosecutor’s statements and questions during selection.”
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.