2005 Pa. Super. 128 - Fritz v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Under the [same-juror rule], the casting of a dissenting vote on any question reduces the dissenter’s influence to a state of practical impotence and creates a mandate for continued unanimity among the other jurors on the remaining questions if the verdict is to survive. The dissenter is then bereft of real voting power, for his vote on the remaining questions can no longer affect the verdict”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fritz v. Wright

2. “[T]he “verdict,” which answered “No” to the interrogatory asking whether contributory negligence was a factor and which awarded $51,300 in damages to [Appellant], was not the verdict of Jurors 4, 8, or 9[; as such, it was a] verdict of only nine of the twelve jurors, and thus was not a verdict at all.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fritz v. Wright