579 So. 2d 45 - Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 695 So. 2d 70 - Bush v. State (1996), Zumbado v. State (1993)
1 federal appellate · 59 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 · Swain v. State of Alabama · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'An appellate court may reverse the trial *Page 100 court's determination that the prosecutor's peremptory challenges were not motivated by intentional discrimination only if that determination is”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. State · Little v. State“" ' "[A] prima facie case may be made where relevant circumstances indicate an inference of purposeful race discrimination no matter that one or more black persons may remain on the jury." United States v. Wilson , 884 F.2d 1121 , 1123 (8th Cir. 1989). "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." Williams v. State , 548 So.2d 501 , 507 (Ala.Crim.App. 1988), cert. denied , 489 U.S. 1028 [ 109 S.Ct. 1159 , 103 L.Ed.2d 218 ] . . . (1989). "Of course, the fact that blacks are ultimately seated on the jury does not necessarily bar a finding of discrimination under Batson [,] see [United States v.] Battle , 836 F.2d [1084] [at] 1086 [(8th Cir. 1987)], but the fact may be taken into account in a review of all the circumstances as one suggests that the government did not seek to rid the jury of persons who shared the defendant's race." United States v. Young-Bey , 893 F.2d 178 , 180 (8th Cir. 1990).' " Mitchell v. State , 579 So.2d 45 , 48 (Ala.Crim.App. 1991), cert. denied , 596 So.2d 954 (Ala. 1992)."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[I]t is important that the defendant come forward with facts, not just numbers alone, when asking the [trial] court to find a prima facie case'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.