Blackman v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a prosecutor’s race-neutral reason can be genuine, even if premised on a mistake
• stating that opponent of strike bears burden to establish that strike was product of purposeful discrimination by preponderance of evidence
• stating that when a race neutral explanation is proffered, the defendant has the burden of persuasion to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the State engaged in purposeful discrimination
• stating that appellate courts “examine a trial court’s conclusion that a racially neutral explanation is genuine, not a pretext, with great deference, reversing only when' that conclusion is, in view of the record as a whole, clearly erroneous”
• premising explanation on mistaken recollection of juror’s answer is not evidence of pretext
• articulating three steps and noting opponent of strike has “burden of persuasion to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the strike was indeed the product of purposeful discrimination”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

50 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Colone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-05-08· cited 146×
• James Bethea, s/k/a James Willie Bethea v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-02-20· cited 29×
• Finley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-08-15· cited 25×
• Joseph Prystash v. Lorie Davis, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-04-26· cited 13×
• James Allen Bundage v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-30· cited 6×
• Willie James Sauls v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-08-22
• Joshua M. Willis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2015-07-15
• George Washington Hicks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-07-21
• Henry Andre Winzer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-08-19
• Nelson, Steven Lawayne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-15
• Cade, Tyrone
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-02-25
• Bobby Ray Burks, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-03-26
• Iniubong Ebong v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-04-09
• Kelly Laura Sixtos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-08-26
• Rusty Lee Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-02-13
• Johnson, Matthew Lee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-11-18
• Devin Jeimond Mitchell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2016-07-08
• Henry Andre Winzer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-01-16
• Jamey Justin Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-09-23
• Dylan A. Tristani v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-03-09

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-10-06· cited 6,365×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• Miller-El v. Dretke
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-13· cited 1,931×
• Snyder v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 2008-03-19· cited 1,296×
• Herron v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-09· cited 482×
• Hunter v. Underwood
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-16· cited 419×
• Tompkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 307×
• Whitsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-09-19· cited 278×
• Vargas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 235×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-02-13· cited 210×
• Blackman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-04-13· cited 206×
• Gibson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-09-15· cited 192×
• Thaler v. Haynes
  Supreme Court· 2010-02-22· cited 188×
• Young v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-01· cited 177×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 174×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-22· cited 169×
• Yarborough v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-06-11· cited 90×