purposeful discrimination
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 325 U.S. 398 - Akins v. Texas · 1945Most cited · 845 citing opinions
jury selection
A purpose to discriminate must be present which may be proven by systematic exclusion of eligible jurymen of the proscribed race or by unequal application of the law to such an extent as to show intentional discrimination.
How often courts cite the case defining “purposeful discrimination”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “purposeful discrimination” — 845 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.