26 Ala. App. 331 - Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1992
16 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 25 Ala. App. 477 - Roberts v. State · 17 Ala. App. 417 - Ledbetter v. State · 24 Ala. App. 400 - Stone v. State · 22 Ala. App. 305 - Tisdale 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also insisted that the conduct of the deputy sheriff in refusing to permit the jury to see the judge, upon their request, relative to the punishment to be-fixed, is error. The jury should at all times during their deliberations have access to the judge for such additional legal instructions as they may require, and no sheriff or deputy having the jury in charge has any right to instruct them or to gainsay this right. The influence of such officer’s communications, acts, or declarations to or in the presence of the jury will be credited with more effect than is accorded to those made by outsiders, and if such acts are reasonably calculated to prejudice defendant a new trial will be granted. 16 C.J. 1165 (2673). The act of the deputy in the instant case may have influenced the jury to have resorted to a quotient verdict, rather than to continue deliberation in an effort to-arrive at a verdict which would reflect, the true findings of the whole jury. * * * >>”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gregg v. State“may have influenced the jury to have resorted to a quotient verdict.”
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.