State v. Grillo’s Empirical Analysis

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11 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * Among the jurors who were examined and finally accepted to serve on the jury was one Arthur Kuhnle. Arthur Kuhnle was employed as a night manager by the Western Union Telegraph Company on February 25, 1952 and had been so employed for a long time previous to that date. During the night of March 30, 1951, Arthur Kuhnle, while taking a deposit from the Western Union office to be deposited in the National State Bank on Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey, was ‘stuck up’ at the point of. a gun, and robbed of the money which he was carrying. * * * “10. Not only did Arthur Kuhnle fail to disclose that he had been a victim of a hold-up but he failed to truthfully answer the question as to whether he knew of any of the State’s officers or personnel. This is clearly shown by the newspaper article above quoted in which it is stated that Kuhnle ordinarily called for a police escort each night and that he discussed the subject matter of his being held up with Detective Sergeant Stottsmeister and Detectives Fruehter and Keller. * * * ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States ex rel. De Vita v. McCorkle · United States of America Ex Rel. Silvio De Vita v. Lloyd W. McCorkle Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey

2. “`If such ground as this were considered by the Court some two years after the trial, the Court would be setting a precedent whereby after every conviction in a criminal case there might be a re-examination of the intimate life of every person who sat on the jury, going back an indeterminate space of time, and if that minute examination of the past life of any one of the twelve jurors revealed any information that might (not that would, but that might) have some bearing upon the juror's verdict, there would be established a ground for setting aside the verdict and granting a new trial. I think the mere statement of that proposition answers itself. The situation could be reduced to an absurdity.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lopez v. State

3. “the imputation of bias to Kuhnle, as a matter of law, because he once had been the victim of highway robbery is only surmise and speculation * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 156 N.J. Super. 303 - State v. Singletary