Rector 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 finding of one racially-motivated consideration vitiates the legitimacy of the jury selection procedure
• finding no abuse of discretion in trial court’s refusal to accept prosecutor’s explanation that striking a juror with a gold tooth, “in and of itself,” was a racially neutral reason
• finding no abuse of discretion in trial court’s refusal to accept prosecutor’s explanation that striking a juror with a gold tooth, “in and of itself,” was a racially neutral reason
• “[w]hile we realize that it is unrealistic to expect trial counsel to put aside every improper influence when selecting a juror, we conclude that is exactly what the law requires”
• \[The trial court erred in ruling that other purportedly race neutral explanations cured the element of the stereotypical reasoning employed by the State's attorney in exercising a peremptory strike.\
• no abuse of discretion in ruling that having gold teeth is a racial stereotype under Batson

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-22· cited 169×
• Payton v. Kearse
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-01-12· cited 81×
• State v. Lucas
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2001-02-13· cited 46×
• McCormick v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-02-26· cited 44×
• Wamget v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-12· cited 39×
• Akins v. Easterling
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-08-05· cited 36×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-30· cited 33×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-12-05· cited 29×
• Ross v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-02-19· cited 26×
• George v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-03· cited 23×
• Richard Craig Kesser v. Steven J. Cambra, Jr., Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-12-16· cited 20×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 16×
• Minor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-10· cited 15×
• State v. Gill
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1995-07-17· cited 10×
• Sharp v. Fagan
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-10-24· cited 8×
• People v. Douglas
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2018-05-03· cited 5×
• Robert Anthony Clayton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-17· cited 3×
• State v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-10· cited 2×
• Pecor v. Walls
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-01-08· cited 2×
• People v. Douglas
  California Court of Appeal· 2018-05-03

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-07-09· cited 179×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-26· cited 95×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 89×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-01-15· cited 74×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-09-14· cited 59×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-12-01· cited 50×
• Osborne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-21· cited 43×
• State v. Tomlin
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-09-05· cited 40×
• Staples v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-15· cited 37×
• Strozier v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 33×
• Congdon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-01-22· cited 31×
• Moore v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-09-25· cited 27×
• Chunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-09-09· cited 23×
• McKinney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1988-11-30· cited 23×
• Speaker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1987-10-08· cited 23×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-14· cited 22×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-08· cited 20×
• Randolph v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-02-13· cited 10×