State v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2017
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 Turner v. Louisiana · State v. Sneeden · State v. MacOn · 36 N.C. App. 227 - State v. Johnson · State v. Mettrick
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.
“[t]he probability of prejudice was more certain in this case than in Mettrick . In Mettrick the drivers were in effect chauffeurs who were carrying out their duties to transport jurors to and from the courthouse. Here [the sheriff], by gratuitously transporting the three jurors to the restaurant, granted them a special "favor." Certainly, this must have improved his image and strengthened his credibility in the eyes of the three jurors who were actually in the process of their deliberations. We further note that the jurors were not questioned as to whether their encounter with the Sheriff in any way affected their verdict. The action of [the sheriff] and the jurors constituted misconduct which if "allowed to go unabated ... would seriously erode confidence in our jury system."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins“that an immediate family member of either a prosecutor trying the case, a defendant, a defendant's counsel defending the case, or a crucial witness for either the prosecution or the defense is prohibited from serving as custodian or officer in charge of the jury in a criminal case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins“that Mettrick squarely controls the decision in this case or that [the sheriff] actually acted as an officer in charge of the jury so as to permit a conclusive presumption of prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins
How this case has been treated — in progress
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