# Strauder v. West Virginia

> Supreme Court of the United States · March 18, 1880 · 100 U.S. 303

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9417196

## Case

- **Full name:** Strauder v. West Virginia
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** March 18, 1880
- **Citations:** 100 U.S. 303; 25 L. Ed. 664; 1879 U.S. LEXIS 1830
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Field
- **Judges:** Strong, Field
- **Cited by:** 1,044 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Reported abrogated on other grounds by Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975) — not on the Supreme Court's list.
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9417196

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that each of the provisions of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment had a “common purpose”: “securing to a race recently emancipated, a race that through many generations had been held in slavery, all the civil rights” that were enjoyed by white citizens
- holding that a criminal defendant “‘has no affirmative right to a jury of a particular racial, gender, or age composition’”
- holding that a state denies a defendant equal protection when it purposefully excludes all members of the defendant's race from being eligible to serve as jurors
- explaining that discriminatory exclusion is a “brand upon [the excluded jurors], affixed by the law, an assertion of their inferiority”

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Field.
I dissent from the judgment of the court in this case, on the grounds stated in my opinion in Ex parte Virginia (infra, p. 349), and Mr. Justice Clifford concurs with me.

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