601 So. 2d 56 - Ex Parte Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 21 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “at face value the State's ostensibly facially neutral explanations for the use of its peremptory challenges, which were, with regard to three of the black veniremembers who were struck, based exclusively on information contained in the document to which only the State had access.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte McNair · King v. State

2. “[t]he trial court cannot merely accept the specific reasons given by the prosecutor at face value.... Rather, the court must consider whether the facially neutral explanations are contrived to avoid admitting acts of group discrimination.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. State · 163 So. 3d 389 - Scott v. State

3. “"The State is not 'required to produce all notes, reports, or other documents that it uses in exercising its peremptory challenges.' Ex parte Thomas , 601 So.2d 56 , 58 (Ala. 1992).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 642 So. 2d 511 - Reese v. City of Dothan · 667 So. 2d 132 - Newman v. State