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Supreme Court· 2/20/1990

Holland v. Illinois

Citations

  • 493 U.S. 474
  • 110 S. Ct. 803
  • 107 L. Ed. 2d 905
  • 1990 U.S. LEXIS 569

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that white criminal defendant had standing to raise Sixth-Amendment rights of potential veniremen by challenging racially discriminatory use of peremptory challenges to eliminate black persons from the trial jury
  • holding that a white criminal defendant has standing to bring equal protection challenge to exclusion of black jurors from petit jury only because of the defendant’s sixth amendment right to an impartial jury
  • re-affirming that a defendant has no Sixth Amendment right to a petit jury representing a fair cross-section of the community
  • holding the Sixth Amendment’s fair cross-section requirement does not mirror the Equal Protection Clause’s proscription against racial discrimination in the exercise of peremptory challenges
  • holding the Sixth Amendment’s fair cross-section requirement does not mirror the Equal Protection Clause’s proscription against racial discrimination in the exercise of peremptory challenges
  • stating that the Sixth Amendment “requirement of an ‘impartial jury’ impliedly compels peremptory challenges”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Scalia, Kehnquist, White, O'Connor, Kennedy, Marshall, Brennan, Blackmun, Stevens

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

Cites

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

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