State v. Weatherspoon

How courts have described this case

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

• holding not only that the rapport explanation, “though troublesome, constitutes a facially race-neutral explanation” at step two but also that the Batson challenge in that case failed at step three as well
• Batson and its progeny require trial courts to be \thought police” and gives them the power to punish those who \don’t think right” by, for example, placing on a jury a juror upon whom the defendant has exercised a peremptory challenge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Casarez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-12-13· cited 112×
• State v. James
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1994-08-26· cited 31×
• State v. Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2009-09-29· cited 11×
• State v. Reiners
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2002-05-21· cited 6×
• Davina Valdez v. West Des Moines Community Schools and Desira Johnson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2023-06-30

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Polk County v. Dodson
  Supreme Court· 1981-12-14· cited 4,924×
• Berger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-15· cited 4,581×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Brown v. Board of Education
  Supreme Court· 1954-05-17· cited 3,819×
• Michigan v. Long
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 3,763×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Powers v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-01· cited 2,917×
• Employment Div., Dept. of Human Resources of Ore. v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 2,569×
• Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co.
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-03· cited 1,403×
• Strauder v. West Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1880-03-18· cited 1,327×
• Georgia v. McCollum
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-18· cited 1,235×
• Plessy v. Ferguson
  Supreme Court· 1896-05-18· cited 1,034×
• Nix v. Whiteside
  Supreme Court· 1986-02-26· cited 983×
• Lewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1892-12-05· cited 760×
• Ristaino v. Ross
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-03· cited 642×
• Sperry v. Florida Ex Rel. Florida Bar
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-27· cited 362×
• Friedman v. Commissioner of Public Safety
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1991-08-15· cited 177×