In Re Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2016
18 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 Allen v. United States · Brasfield v. United States · Williams v. United States · Bruce v. Chestnut Farms-Chevy Chase Dairy · United States v. Noble
Most-quoted passages
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“* * * It is obvious that if one juror opposes the announced verdict, the jury must be discharged or returned for more deliberation. In the instant case, despite the fact that the first juror polled announced “Not guilty”, the jury poll was continued through all other 11 jurors. We have grave doubt about the desirability of such a practice. All that is accomplished by continuing the poll is to ascertain the numerical division of a jury in disagreement. * * * 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(d) Poll Of Jury. When a verdict is returned and before it is recorded the jury shall be polled at the request of any party or upon the court’s own motion. If upon the poll there is not unanimous concurrence, the jury may be directed to retire for further deliberations or may be discharged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . after a juror’s dissent is clearly registered, further polling is unnecessary and, in the absence of a contrary request by defense counsel, is error. (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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