Garrett v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 509 · 1987
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Teague v. Lane (1989), State v. Moore (1989)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Griffith v. Kentucky · Rideout v. United States · Mann v. Koob
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purposes of the peremptory challenges are being perverted”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] defendant can make out a prima facie case of purposeful discrimination on proof that the prosecutor perverted the peremptory-challenge system by using his challenges ‘to exclude blacks from the jury “for reasons wholly unrelated to the outcome of the particular ease on trial,” or to deny to blacks “the same right and opportunity to participate in the administration of justice enjoyed by the white population.’””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nor would it have been inconsistent with Swain for the trial judge to invalidate peremptory challenges of blacks if the prosecutor, in response to an objection to his strikes, stated that he struck blacks because he believed they were not qualified to serve as jurors, especially in the trial of a black defendant”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.