Jefferson v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 1185 · 1992
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2017
9 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Rose v. Lundy · Swain v. State of Alabama · Castaneda v. Partida · Vasquez v. Hillery
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant must show that the procedure employed resulted in substantial underrepresentation of his race or of the identifiable group to which he belongs. The first step is to establish that the group is one that is a recognizable, distinct class, singled out for different treatment under the laws, as written or as applied. Next, the degree of under-representation must be proved, by comparing the proportion of the group in the total population to the proportion called to serve as ... juror, over a significant period of time ... Finally ... a selection procedure that is susceptible [to] abuse or is not racially neutral supports the presumption of discrimination raised by the statistical showing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, he must establish that the group excluded from the grand jury is one that is a recognizable, distinct class capable of being singled out for different treatment under the laws. Second, he must establish that the selection procedure used by the state to select grand juries is susceptible to abuse or is not racially neutral. Finally, he must establish the degree of underrepresentation occurring over a significant period of time by comparing the proportion of the excluded group in the total population to the proportion serving as grand jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A standard deviation is a measure of the extent to which an observed result is likely to vary from an expected result. The larger the number of standard deviations, an observed result is from the expected result, the lower the probability that the observed result is random. More specifically, in the context of racial discrimination claims, the larger the number of standard deviations, the more likely the observed result is the result of discrimination, rather than chance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alba v. Quarterman
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.