Harris v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Sistrunk v. Vaughn (1996)
10 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Taylor v. Louisiana · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · McCray v. New York · Williams v. Illinois; Dixon v. Illinois; Yates v. Illinois
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Over the past year, I have repeatedly urged my colleagues to grant certiorari in similar cases in which state prosecutors have blatantly employed peremptory challenges to remove Negro jurors. See Williams v. Illinois, 466 U.S. 981 [, 104 S.Ct. 2364 , 80 L.Ed.2d 836 ] (1984) (MARSHALL, J., dissenting); Gilliard v. Mississippi, 464 U.S. 867 [, 104 S.Ct. 40 , 78 L.Ed.2d 179 ] (1983); (MARSHALL, J., dissenting); Mc Cray v. New York, 461 U.S. 961, 963 [, 103 S.Ct. 2438, 2439 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1322 ] (1983) (MARSHALL, J., dissenting). The Court, however, remains satisfied that Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 202 [, 85 S.Ct. 824 , 13 L.Ed.2d 759 ] (1965), adequately protects criminal defendants against prosecutorial misuse of peremptory challenges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Mathews v. State“prosecutors in Harris County routinely employ peremptory challenges to exclude Negro jurors in cases involving the credibility of a white complainant and a Negro defendant,” including the testimony of”
1 later decision 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.