Holland v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

186 federal appellate · 31 district · 468 state decisions

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 851 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We have recognized, for example, that the fair cross-section requirement of the Sixth Amendment forbids the exclusion of groups on the basis of such characteristics as race and gender from a jury venire because “[wjithout that requirement, the State could draw up jury lists in such manner as to produce a pool of prospective jurors disproportionately ill disposed towards one or all classes of defendants, and thus more likely to yield petit juries with similar disposition.””

   33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · Bell v. Baker

2. “a means of assuring, not a representative jury (which the Constitution does not demand), but an impartial one (which it does).”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Guthrie v. State · Pierce v. State

3. “" As a majority of this Court has now concluded, a close reading of Batson shows that a defendant's race is irrelevant to his standing to raise the equal protection claim recognized in that case. See infra, [110 S.Ct.] at 813-814 (MARSHALL, J., dissenting); ante, at 811-812 (KENNEDY, J., concurring); post, at 820-822 (STEVENS, J., dissenting).... Nowhere did the Court state [in Batson ], however, that a white defendant could not make out a prima facie case based upon the exclusion of Afro-American jurors, and the logic of the Court's decision would not have supported such a conclusion. "* * * * "In any event, the question whether a defendant's race affects his standing to invoke Batson is one on which the Court has not ruled. For the reader who seeks guidance on how the Court would rule if the issue were presented and argued, the agreement of five Justices [Blackmun, Brennan, Kennedy, Marshall, and Stevens] that a defendant's race is irrelevant to the Fourteenth Amendment standing inquiry is far more illuminating than the majority's veiled intimations and cryptic turns of phrase."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Guthrie v. State · Gordon v. State