State v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the need for stability of verdicts; (2) the need to conclude litigation and desire to prevent any prolongation thereof; (3) the need to protect jurors in their communications to fellow jurors made in the confidence of secrecy of the jury room; (4) the need to save jurors harmless from tampering and harassment by disappointed litigants; (5) the need to foreclose jurors from abetting the setting aside of verdicts to which they may have agreed reluctantly in the first place or about which they may in the light of subsequent developments have doubts or a change of attitude.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hurd · Ma v. Bryan

2. “depression, insomnia, and the anxiety he felt following the outcome of the Presidential election-an election that occurred more than five months prior to the trial. This is the very kind of attempt by a disgruntled juror to set aside a verdict that Rule 606(b) is designed to prevent.”). 56 . Contrary to the court of appeals, we find that, because the State objected to all testimony by Mr. Aguilera at the onset of the hearing, the evidence is not”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Colyer, Wilkie Schell Jr.

3. “inquire into the validity of a verdict ... [namely,] for serious allegations of juror bias in the context of juror dishonesty or inaccuracy in answering a voir dire questionnaire, for example”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Leon