State v. Butler

How courts have described this case

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

• strike of black nurse held invalid when white venireperson employed by the American Nurses Association was not struck
• strike of black nurse held invalid when white venireperson employed by the American Nurses Association was not struck
• lack of eye contact and allegation that juror stared at the floor held insufficient where prosecutor did not question juror
• the prosecutor used her six peremptory challenges to strike all six black jurors
• Specific objection is essential in making a record which supports a Batson challenge
• strike of elderly individual where prosecutor stated into the record that elderly jurors are more subject to intimidation, but where no voir dire was conducted along this line, held pretextual under Batson

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• State v. Antwine
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-12-15· cited 533×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Tompkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 307×
• Keeton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-04-06· cited 298×
• People v. Evans
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-09-29· cited 236×
• State v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2003-08-26· cited 232×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• State v. Collier
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1989-12-11· cited 180×
• Stanley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-07-01· cited 98×
• People v. Hope
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-05-30· cited 84×
• Thomas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-03-04· cited 55×
• People v. Duncan
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-03-13· cited 46×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 45×
• State v. Tomlin
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-09-05· cited 40×
• Simon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-09-30· cited 40×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-07-19· cited 36×
• State v. Martinez
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-11-30· cited 32×
• Chew v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-07-07· cited 29×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-05-29· cited 28×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Griffith v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-13· cited 3,380×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• People v. Wheeler
  California Supreme Court· 1978-09-25· cited 1,612×
• Commonwealth v. Soares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-08· cited 576×
• Avery v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1953-07-14· cited 541×
• State v. Neil
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-27· cited 507×
• State v. Gilmore
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-07-16· cited 211×
• People v. Hall
  California Supreme Court· 1983-12-12· cited 185×
• People v. Turner
  California Supreme Court· 1986-10-23· cited 184×
• United States v. Lowden David
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-11-13· cited 158×
• Michael McCray v. Robert Abrams
  Second Circuit· 1984-12-04· cited 152×
• Slappy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-02-03· cited 120×
• Larry Booker v. John Jabe, Warden, Kinross Correctional Facility
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-10-29· cited 77×
• United States v. Frederick Mathews
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-10-29· cited 77×
• Abrams v. McCray
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 54×
• United States v. Robinson
  D. Connecticut· 1976-10-15· cited 51×
• Rodgers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1987-02-12· cited 39×
• Hardy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-18· cited 12×