State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the foreperson of..the jury said something to the effect of ‘okay, fíne,’ 'and the jurors got up to leave. The trial court and the lawyers took that as a signal that the jurors had heard enough, although defense counsel continued to argue -that they should be ‘required’' to hear the whole statement.”

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

2. “It is well-established that 'the reading of all or part of the testimony of one or more of the witnesses at a trial, criminal or civil, at the specific request of the jury during their deliberations is discretionary with the trial court.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 457 N.J. Super. 345 - State v. Brown

3. “It goes without saying that every readback and the exchanges accompanying it must be recorded in full.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 362 N.J. Super. 180 - State v. Brown