Page v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “After hearing the charge, the jury may either decide in court, or may retire for deliberation. If they do not agree without retiring, one or more officers must be sworn to keep them together in some private and convenient place, and not to permit any person to speak to or communicate with them, nor do so themselves, unless it be by order of the court, or to ask them whether they have agreed upon a verdict, and to return them into court when they have so agreed, or when ordered by the court.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wood v. Carpenter · Wood v. Carpenter

2. ““The provisions of 22 O.S.1951 § 857 imperatively require that upon the final submission of the case to the jury, they cannot be permitted to separate, and if permitted to separate, such separation vitiates the verdict, in the absence of proof by the state that no prejudicial injury resulted by reason of their separation.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. McKinley v. State · Bayliss v. State

3. “In principle, we can see little difference between a separation of the jury after hearing the charge and argument of counsel, and a separation after the actual retirement of the jury for deliberation. The plain purpose and intent of the law is to surround a trial by such safeguards as will exclude all external and improper influence from the jury, and thus protect the right of a defendant to a fair and impartial trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. State