People v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), 168 Ill. 2d 420 - People v. McDonald (1995)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 People v. . Cannon · People v. McBride · Magner v. People · B'd of Com'rs of Excise, Etc. v. . Merchant · State v. Buck
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All this the bill states occurred after the jury had retired and in the absence of the defendant and his counsel. It is not stated that the jury were brought into open court, but even if they were, the occurrence is not relieved of its objectionable features. Neither the defendant nor his counsel was present. No opportunity was given to object to the rulings of the court or to present instructions in behalf of the defendant or to ask for a modification of those given by the judge. The defendant and his counsel were excluded from participation in this part of the trial. So far as they were concerned the proceedings were secret and ex parte, and their only information in regard to them was derived from hearsay after the event.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendant was entitled to a public trial by jury, in every part of which he had a right to participate, to be present at every stage of the proceedings, to know everything that was done, to make objections, and to take such action as he might think best for securing his rights and for his protection. The law is well settled in this State that it is error for which a judgment will be reversed for a trial judge to hold any communication with the jury after their retirement to deliberate upon their verdict, except in open court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Tilley“Regardless of the question of the correctness of the instruction the action of the court was error for which the judgment must be reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Tilley
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.