State v. Newhouse’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions

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.

1. ““The district judge was of opinion that this was a substantial compliance with the statute, and that the commissioners, l)y approving, made the list their own selection. We do not think so. To so hold would be equivalent to affirming that the commissioners could act by proxy or deputy in the performance of their very important and grave duties. Nothing in the statute justifies such an inference. Much less could their functions bo performed by a person like Mr. Adams, who was, as it were, a mere bystander, under none of tlio obligations of an officer, or even of an agent or proxy. 1‡ is manifest that there would and could be no security for the accused against packed juries, if they be selected in this loose way. The intent of the law was that two responsible and competent men should, under the appointment of the Governor and under the sanction of an oath, select from all the voters of the parish a list of persons to serve as jurors; that they should inspect and select from the names of all the voters, and not simply inspect and approve what might be a ‘cut and dried’ list of 200 or 300 names. Such a system is too liable to abuse to be tolerated or sanctioned by courts charged with the lives and liberties of the citizens.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Murphy · State v. Bain

2. “' “They shall select impartially from the citizens of the parish of Orleans having the qualifications requisite to register as voters the names of not less than five hundred good and competent men, a list of whose names shall be made out and returned certified under their hands to the clerk of the superior criminal court, to be filed by him in Ms office; said list shall be kept complete and supplemented from time to time. Each of the names on said list, and all supplemental lists shall be written out by said clerk on a separate slip of paper, together with the place of residence of each person, and the slips of paper on which shall be written the names and places of residence of persons on the said list, shall be placed in a box or wheel to be kept for that purpose by the sheriff of the court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Murphy

3. ““No person shall hold or exercise, at the same time, more than one office of trust or profit, except that of justice of the peace or notary public.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Martin