548 So. 2d 501 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 80 state decisions

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

1. “"The explanation given for some of the strikes was based on an assumed employment group bias, which was not shown to apply factually to any venireperson specifically or to the facts of the particular case. No explanation was offered to explain why a school teacher, a college counselor, a school lunchroom worker, or a person connected with a mental health organization would be against, rather than in favor of, the prosecution."”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 557 So. 2d 855 - Jackson v. State · 721 So. 2d 152 - Looney v. Davis

2. “[W]hen the trial court calls upon the prosecutor for an explanation, without expressly finding a prima facie case, we will proceed directly to evaluate the sufficiency of the ensuing explanation.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Taylor v. State · McGahee v. State

3. “The striking of one venireperson for a racial reason violate[s] the Equal Protection Clause, even when valid reasons for striking some black jurors are shown.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bell v. State · 682 So. 2d 488 - Weaver v. State