608 F. Supp. 629 - Roman v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 3 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the group alleged to be excluded is a cognizable group in the community, and (2) there is a substantial likelihood that the challenges leading to this exclusion have been made on the basis of the individual venirepersons’ group affiliation rather than because of any indication of a possible inability to decide the case on the basis of the evidence presented.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 619 F. Supp. 1433 - Schreiber v. Salamack · 641 F. Supp. 1037 - Diaz v. Scully

2. “come forward and present 'some reason other than group affiliation for the challenges.' " Id. at 634 (quoting McCray, 750 F.2d at 1133). Concluding that the reasons adduced by the State amounted "to a lot of lawyer circumlocution, folklore and cant, either unbelievably trivial and incredible, or pointing most strongly to the inescapable inference that the prosecution set out to skew the jury selection process so as to remove as many white jurors as possible,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Roman v. Abrams

3. “'who were too law and order oriented,' " two of the jurors who were empaneled were relatives of police officers, id.; and that "rather than verbalize a reason, the prosecutor withdrew his challenge of a white juror, in the tradition of a child whose fingers had been caught in the cookie jar,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Roman v. Abrams