Ramseur v. Beyer’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 1215 · 1992
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Werts v. Vaughn (2000), United States v. Console (1993)
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Coleman v. Thompson · Teague v. Lane · Fay v. Noia · Arizona v. Fulminante
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“measures the diminished likelihood that members of an underrepresented group, when compared to the population as a whole, will be called for jury service.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it apparently was not motivated by a desire to discriminate purposefully against African-Americans, nor was it apparently an attempt expressly to limit the number of African-Americans”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an even mix of people from background and races, and things like that.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.