Tucker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2017
12 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 Burnett v. State · Green v. State · 139 Ga. App. 833 - White v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`There is no uniformity in, nor statutory authority for, polling a jury although it is a material right derived from common law. [Cit.] The object of the poll is to ascertain before the public and the prisoner that the verdict agreed upon in the jury room is still the unanimous verdict of the jury.' [Cit.] We have held that the questions, `Was that your verdict?' and `Is it now your verdict?' meet the minimum requirements of the defendant's right to a poll of the jurors. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benefield v. State“`The object of the poll is to ascertain before the public and the prisoner that the verdict agreed upon in the jury room is still the unanimous verdict of the jury.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benefield v. State
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.