Robert C. Gilliard, Jr. v. Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 11 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2000 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Teague v. Lane (1989)
85 federal appellate · 11 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Swain v. State of Alabama · Brown v. Allen · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Taylor v. Louisiana
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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To my knowledge, in the five years since Wheeler and Soares, not a single state supreme court has imposed state constitutional limits on peremptory challenges. In fact, over the same period, at least 19 jurisdictions have considered the issue and, following Swain, reaffirmed their view that the exclusion of Negroes by peremptory challenges is constitutional in the absence of evidence of systematic exclusion.” (Footnotes omitted.) 16”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.