United States v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.2d 1207 · 1971
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), McCray v. New York (1983)
56 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 21 (§ 320910 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Brady v. State of Maryland · Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to deny the Negro the same right and opportunity to participate in the administration of justice enjoyed by the white population.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Thigpen · May v. State“"* * * In the six years which have passed since Swain , we have not found a single instance in which a defendant has prevailed on this issue. Nonetheless, the burden is not insurmountable. * * *"”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The presumption in any particular case must be that the prosecutor is using the State’s challenges to obtain a fair and impartial jury to try the case before the court. The presumption is not overcome and the prosecutor therefore subjected to examination by allegations that in the case at hand all Negroes were removed from the jury or that they were removed because they were Negroes. Any other result, we think, would establish a rule wholly at odds with the peremptory challenge system as we know it.””
3 later decisions 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.