Thorson 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 state constitutional and statutory law prohibit the exercise of peremptory challenges based solely on a person’s religion
• prosecutor acting in good faith may offer a race-neutral reason supplied to him by a third party
• prosecutor acting in good faith may offer a race-neutral reason supplied to him by a third party
• prosecutor acting in good faith may offer a race-neutral reason supplied to him by a third party
• discussing discrimination of juror on the basis of religion
• Batson extended to peremptory strikes based on religion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McGilberry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-03· cited 242×
• Lynch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 153×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-11· cited 149×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-06-29· cited 149×
• Pitchford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-06-24· cited 129×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-05-09· cited 126×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-02-01· cited 124×
• Stevens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-13· cited 121×
• Corrothers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-06-26· cited 99×
• Bailey v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-01-26· cited 95×
• Grayson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-11-08· cited 89×
• Thorson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-11-04· cited 78×
• Birkhead v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-02-17· cited 60×
• Fleming v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-28· cited 46×
• Bush v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2009-05-29· cited 45×
• United States v. Jerry Dejesus
  Third Circuit· 2003-10-17· cited 44×
• Pruitt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-07-24· cited 44×
• States v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-05-17· cited 44×
• Illinois Cent. R. Co. v. Hawkins
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-10-03· cited 42×
• Curtis Giovanni Flowers v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-11-13· cited 42×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 11,658×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Commonwealth v. Soares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-08· cited 576×
• State v. Antwine
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-12-15· cited 533×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 290×
• Lester v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-07· cited 278×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 258×
• State v. Gilmore
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-07-16· cited 211×
• Collins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-01-30· cited 191×
• People v. MacK
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-04-20· cited 135×
• People v. Snow
  California Supreme Court· 1987-12-24· cited 123×
• Thorson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-08· cited 122×
• Casarez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-12-13· cited 112×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-22· cited 98×
• United States v. Angeline Roan Eagle
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-04-17· cited 91×
• United States v. Robert Blackman, Marvin Hinsey, Kenny Thompson, Salathiel Calvin Thompson
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-10-20· cited 87×