People v. McCray’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), 97 Ill. 2d 252 - People v. Williams (1983)
32 federal appellate · 21 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.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issue of minority representation on criminal juries has been the subject of several decisions by the Supreme Court. These decisions draw a critical distinction between the jury pool, which is the group of prospective jurors from which the litigants will select a jury to hear their particular case, and the jury that is ultimately chosen to serve. The Sixth Amendment requires that the jury pool be selected from a representative cross section of the community (Taylor v. Louisiana [(1975)], 419 U.S. 522 , 42 L. Ed. 2d 690 , 95 S. Ct. 692 ), and distinctive groups in the community may not be systematically excluded from the pool. Once the jury pool is selected, however, prospective jurors may then be excluded through the exercise of cause challenges and peremptory challenges.” (People v. McCray (1982), 57 N.Y.2d 542, 545 , 443 N.E.2d 915, 916-17 , 457 N.Y.S.2d 441, 442-43 , cert. denied (1983), 461 U.S. ___ , 77 L. Ed. 2d 1322 , 103 S. Ct. 2438 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““First, jurors may be reluctant to admit their prejudices before spectators or others present in the courtroom during the voir dire. Second, certain prospective jurors may evade full disclosure of their prejudices in an effort to avoid being struck from the jury. Finally, other prospective jurors may simply be unaware of the existence of certain biases or prejudices they may harbor.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Pointed questions directed at an area as sensitive as a potential juror’s racial, religious or sexual biases may, even where such biases do not exist, alienate a juror against counsel and his position.” 457 N.Y.S.2d at 444 , 443 N.E.2d at 918 . 24”
2 later decisions 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.