Judy Leggroan v. Samuel W. Smith, Warden, Utah State Prison’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 168 · 1974
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1994
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Brown v. Allen · Shapiro v. Thompson · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15 · Hernandez v. Texas · United States v. District Court
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our decision is so limited in scope ... that its effects will be minimal. It applies only to those persons convicted in Salt Lake County during the period of time the improper jury selection system was used, and is farther limited to persons who timely objected to their jury panel, because a defendant, by accepting a jury, waives his right to object to the panel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelbach v. McCotter““The States remain free to confine the selection [jurors] to citizens, to persons meeting specified qualifications of age and educational attainment, and to those possessing good intelligence, sound judgment, and fair character.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wooten v. State“necessarily requires a showing that a recognizable, identifiable class of persons, otherwise entitled to be jury members, has been purposefully and systematically excluded from jury service.”
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.