231 Pa. Super. 431 - Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably United States v. Saadeh (1995), Commonwealth v. Yost (1978)
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Turner v. Louisiana
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a juror is not disqualified per se because of his deafness, [citation omitted], where the deafness is of such degree as to indicate that the juror may have not heard material testimony, the juror must be disqualified, rendering any verdict he gave as meaningless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hayes · People v. Trevino““Obviously a juror whose vision or hearing is so defective that he cannot hear material testimony, or see the conduct of the witness on the stand, cannot as an impartial juror pass upon the credibility of the witness or the weight to be given his testimony, nor render a fair and impartial verdict solely on the evidence. And, if said juror’s disqualification is not discovered prior to the verdict, through no negligence of the complaining party, it is likewise obvious that injury to his rights may result; and whether the matter of public policy in refusing to consider such disqualification after a verdict has been reached should outweigh an injury done a litigant because of such disqualification may be open to doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Berberian“The presence of a juror with a physical impairment of such magnitude as to interfere with the juror’s ability to hear and understand the presented testimony in evidence precludes a verdict by all jurors. Such a disability would render the juror incompetent to serve and would deny appellant’s right to an impartial jury and a fair hearing. While a juror is not disqualified per se because of his deafness ... where the deafness is of such a degree as to indicate that the juror may not have heard material testimony, the juror must be disqualified, rendering any verdict he gave as meaningless. 231 Pa.Super. at 436 , 332 A.2d at 831 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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