Emerson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that occupation-based, group bias should not be applied to prospective juror without inquiring whether bias applies specifically to venireperson
• holding explanation that panelist struck because panelist was college teacher or student and therefore presumed to be liberal was not persuasive in light of failure to ask any questions of panelist.
• upholding a prosecutor’s strike of a nurse on the theory that a nurse might recommend to other jurors that medical testimony should be introduced in a sexual assault trial
• finding explanations for challenged strike insufficient as a matter of law where classification used by the State to eliminate a prospective juror was not uniformly applied to the non-black veniremembers
• finding explanations for challenged strike insufficient as a matter of law where classification used by the State to eliminate a prospective juror was not uniformly applied to the non-black veniremembers
• finding a prosecutor’s reasons pretextual and insufficient as a matter of law where the record reflects that the prosecutor did not strike white venire members with the same or similar characteristics relied upon in striking minority venire members

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-27· cited 477×
• Camacho v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-13· cited 440×
• People v. Jackson
  California Supreme Court· 1996-08-26· cited 417×
• Davila v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1996-09-18· cited 118×
• Bryant v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1996-05-22· cited 75×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-11-17· cited 66×
• Brewer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1996-06-13· cited 65×
• Held v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1997-06-12· cited 55×
• Moore v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-10-15· cited 39×
• Musick v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1993-09-15· cited 39×
• Peetz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-11-10· cited 37×
• Carter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1997-06-19· cited 32×
• King v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2004-01-21· cited 20×
• Walker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1993-08-18· cited 18×
• Emerson v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2015-09-03· cited 14×
• Lamons v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1997-05-07· cited 13×
• Robert Nathaniel Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-10-01· cited 13×
• Chiles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2001-08-22· cited 12×
• Bridges v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1995-09-14· cited 12×
• Doby v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1995-09-14· cited 11×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Ex Parte Branch
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-12-04· cited 578×
• Keeton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-04-06· cited 298×
• 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×
• Young v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-01· cited 177×
• Emerson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-11· cited 44×