155 Wis. 2d 796 - State v. Behnke’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 21 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he right to poll the jury at the return of the verdict is a corollary to the defendant's right to a unanimous verdict. Polling is a means by which the uncoerced unanimity of the verdict can be tested. Each juror must take individual responsibility and state publicly that he or she agrees with the announced verdict.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Coulthard · 188 Wis. 2d 537 - State v. Jackson

2. “The right to poll the jury at the return of the verdict is a corollary to the defendant's right to a unanimous verdict.... The right to poll the jury is intertwined with the defendant's constitutional right to counsel at the return of the jury verdict.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 188 Wis. 2d 537 - State v. Jackson · 201 Wis. 2d 725 - State v. Xiong Yang

3. “was so serious as to deprive [the defendant] of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 207 Wis. 2d 258 - State v. Smith