Lamons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Turpin v. Todd (1997), King v. State (2000)
40 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 Monroe v. State · Shaw v. State · Hardy v. State · Smith v. State · Martin v. State
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been recognized by the courts of this state that the guarantee of a fair and impartial jury is a central safeguard to a fair trial in our system of criminal justice. Monroe v. State, 5 Ga. 85 (1848). There is a presumption of prejudice to the defendant when an irregularity in the conduct of a juror is shown and the burden is on the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that no harm has occurred. Martin v. State, 242 Ga. 699 ( 251 SE2d 240 ) (1978). We have also recognized that some irregularities are inconsequential. Smith v. State, 218 Ga. 216 ( 126 SE2d 789 ) (1962). . . . [However], [t]here are certain irregularities “which if done by an individual member of the jury, or by the whole jury, are so contrary to the public policy of the State in the procurement of fair and impartial trials for the citizens of the State, as to require that a verdict rendered by such jury be set aside, whether the defendant has been injured thereby or not.” Shaw v. State, 83 Ga. 92, 99 ( 9 SE 768 ) (1889).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockridge v. State“[i]n these circumstances, a conclusive statement by the juror that she was not influenced is insufficient to prove lack of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]ome irregularities are inconsequential.”
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.