Akers v. Epperson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

93 state decisions

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

1. ““It is well settled that cases must be tried in the court room and that a juror is not permitted to become a witness during the jury’s deliberations and that it is misconduct for original evidence of material facts to be received by the jury during its deliberations. Hobrecht v. [San Antonio] & A. P. Ry. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 141 S.W. 579 ; Lincoln v. Stone, Tex.Com. App., 59 S.W.2d 100 . Litigants’ rights are not permitted to be thus jeopardized.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Allen v. Riedel · Bowen v. Brawley

2. ““* * * If it be granted that the finding in question was based upon illogical reasons, or that erroneous conclusions were drawn from the evidence, that, without more, would not constitute misconduct. In the absence of overt acts of misconduct it is not permissible to ‘probe the minds of jurors or supervise their process of reasoning’. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McIlroy v. Wagley