Jones v. Plaster’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.3d 417 · 1995
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably United States v. Darden (1995), United States v. Farrior (2008)
33 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Hernandez v. New York
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A finding by the [trial] court concerning whether a peremptory challenge was exercised for a racially discriminatory reason is given great deference by this court; we review that finding only for clear error.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“need not be worthy of belief or related to the issues to be tried or to the prospective juror's ability to provide acceptable jury service.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he [trial] court is especially well-suited to resolve challenges to peremptory strikes of jurors because it has observed with its own eyes the very act in dispute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.