Leith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably Roan v. State (1932), Arant v. State (1936)
132 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Reynolds v. States · Holt v. United States · Hopt v. People · Spies v. Illinois · The Anarchists' Case Spies
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury system, as a time-honored institution of the common law, and under the Constitutions and the statutes, is dependent upon a fair trial by jurors, without bias or prejudice for or against either party litigant or the state or the defendant. Our statutes have been enacted to safeguard this right, which can only be secured by unbiased jurors. Sovereign Camp v. Ward, 196 Ala. 327 , 71 South. 404 ; Calhoun County v. Watson, 152 Ala. 554 , 44 South. 702 ; L. & N. R. R. Co. v. Young, 168 Ala. 551 , 53 South. 213 ; Stennett v. City of Bessemer, 154 Ala. 637 , 45 South. 890 . And it has been often held by this court that the right of neither party to a jury free from bias or interest is lost, or subjected to chance or peril, because a struck jury is demanded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"It has not been held incompetent to show by members of the jury whether they did read or were influenced by a paper or other extraneous fact that was improperly before them, and not introduced on the trial. McCormick v. Badham, supra; L. & N. R.R. Co. v. Sides, 129 Ala. 399, 403 , 29 South. 798 ; Caldwell v. State, 203 Ala. 412, 420 , 84 South. 272 ; B.R., L. & P. Co. v. Moore [ 148 Ala. 115 , 42 South. 1024 ]." (Emphasis added.) 206 Ala. at 443 , 90 So. at 691 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.