502 So. 2d 877 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2014
23 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Swain v. State of Alabama
Most-quoted passages
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“a perfect mirror of the community or accurately reflect the proportionate strength of every identifiable group”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The appellant also argues that because the trial court is the actual sentencing authority under the capital murder statute, the State has no interest in excluding venire members because of their inability to sentence a defendant to death. Under the Code of Alabama (1975), § 13A-5-46 , in cases of capital offenses, the jury shall return an advisory verdict recommending a sentence. Although this advisory verdict is not binding upon the court, it is nevertheless to be given consideration under § 13A-5-47 (e) of the Code of Alabama (1975). Furthermore, this court has held that ' Witherspoon jurors, those irrevocably committed to vote against the death penalty, are appropriately dismissed to insure a fair and impartial jury.' Callahan v. State , 471 So.2d 447 , 453 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983), reversed on other grounds , 471 So.2d 463 (Ala. 1985). The jury plays a key role in the sentencing phase of a capital case, as is clear in the Alabama Supreme Court's discussion of the jury's role in such sentencing in Beck v. State , 396 So.2d 645 , 662-63 (Ala. 1980). The trial court's exclusion from the jury panel of jurors opposed to the death penalty was proper."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'The Constitution does not guarantee a defendant a proportionate number of his racial group on the jury panel or on the jury which tries him; it merely prohibits deliberate exclusion of an identifiable group from the juror selection process. . . . Mere statistical disparity between the number of blacks presumed eligible for jury duty and the number actually included in the jury roll does not of itself establish a primary inference of invidious discrimination.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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