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State v. Ovitt’s Empirical Analysis

1967

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
6
states following
November 2013
most recently cited

42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably State v. Lapham (1977), 41 Wis. 2d 129 - State Ex Rel. Simos v. Burke (1968)

42 state decisions

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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 Panko v. Flintkote Co. · State v. Barr · Bellows Falls Village Corp. v. State Highway Board · Knight v. Willey · Pinkard v. United States

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A jury is an integral part of the court for the administration of justice and on elementary principles its verdict must be obedient to the court’s charge, based solely on legal evidence produced before it and entirely free from the taint of extraneous considerations and influences. The test is not whether the irregular matter actually influenced the result, but whether it had the capacity of doing so. The stringency of this rule is grounded upon the necessity of keeping the administration of justice pure and free from all suspicion of corrupting practices. It is said to be “imperatively required to secure verdicts based on proofs taken openly at the trial free from all danger of extraneous influences.” Panko v. Flintkote Co., 7 N.J. 55 , 80 A.2d 302 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Woodard

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.