State v. Sacoman’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably State v. Woodward (1995), State v. Griffin (1993)
30 state decisions
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 McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood · 24 Cal. 3d 199 - People v. Pierce · United States v. Perkins · United States v. Howard · Krupiak v. Payton
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Most certainly jurors are not precluded from drawing on their wisdom and experience and engaging in a free exchange of ideas and subjective opinions during the course of their deliberations.... The point, however, is that such deliberations must take their content from the record facts before them, not from external facts brought into the jury room by a juror and thus not screened through the judicial process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mann“The fundamental right to an impartial jury is violated when one juror is unqualified for the reason that any verdict would thus be less than the unanimous verdict of twelve.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pierce“was identified in [ People v. Martinez, 82 Cal.App.3d 1 , 147 Cal.Rptr. 208, 220 (1978)] as a factor constituting prejudice [requiring] that the conviction be reversed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mann
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.