Commonwealth v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “.“An absolute rule that jurors who have sat in a civil case may not at the same term sit in another case, between different parties, involving substantially similar facts and issues, would, unless very strictly interpreted, seriously impair the administration of justice. . It would be extremely difficult to determine where to draw the line of sub- „ . stantial similarity. We are of the opinion that the ends of justice will . be better served by leaving to the trial court some discretion in determining whether bias actually does exist such as to prevent the juror from rendering a fair and impartial verdict.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United Fuel Gas Co. v. Hieneman