10 E.H. Smith 268 - People v. . Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1979 · most notably Horning v. District of Columbia (1920), United States v. Thomas (1971)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 13 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pierce v. Pierce · Phœnix Insurance v. Moog · Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad v. Jackson · People v. Green · Spearman v. Wilson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Jurors were kept] without meat, drink, fire, or candle, unless by permission of the judge, until they were all unanimously agreed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Language on the part of the court the obvious tendency of which is to coerce an agreement on the part of the jury affords ground for a new trial. To insist too strenuously upon the necessity of an agreement may have such effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Mayer““Personal considerations should never be permitted to influence his conclusions; and the thought of them should never be presented to him as a motive for action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pfeiffer v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.