Perry v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado (2017), 69 Ill. 2d 507 - People v. Holmes (1978)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Public policy forbids that a matter resting in the personal consciousness of one juror should be received to overthrow the verdict, because being personal it is not accessible to other testimony; it gives to the secret thought of one the power to disturb the expressed conclusions of twelve; its tendency is to induce bad faith on the part of a minority, to induce an apparent acquiescence with the purpose of subsequent dissent; to induce tampering with individual jurors subsequent to the verdict.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“" We think however, the great weight of authority establishes these propositions: That if a juror during the progress of the trial drinks intoxicating liquor on the invitation and at the expense of the party who afterwards has the verdict, or if at his own expense he drinks so much as to be under the influence of the liquor while sitting in the case, the verdict ought not to stand; and on the other hand, the mere drinking of spirituous and intoxicating liquors by a juror during the progress of a trial is not, in and of itself, sufficient to set aside a verdict (authorities). Aware as all are of the subtle and potent influence of liquor on the brain, no judge should for a moment permit a trial to proceed where it appeared that any juror was under the influence of intoxicating drink, or permit a verdict to stand which was not the cool, deliberate judgment of sober men.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.