Shirley v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.3d 1090 · 2016
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Batson v. Kentucky · Washington v. Davis · Hernandez v. New York · Purkett v. Elem
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a prosecutor peremptorily strikes all or most veniremembers of the defendant's race-as was the case here-is often sufficient on its own to make a prima facie case at [s]tep [o]ne.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]rosecutors might well conceive of 'life experience' in ways that have a profoundly disparate impact on members of different racial groups”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hollis v. Magnusson
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.