State v. Langley’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1993
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 Gaff v. State
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.
“It ought not be necessary to withdraw police officers from the performance of their duties to fill a jury panel. It is bad practice to do so for the trial of civil cases, and a police officer should in no case serve as a juror in a criminal case Note the terse statement by this court in State v. Langley, 342 Mo. 447 , 116 S.W.2d 38 : “In the first assignment of error in his brief, appellant challenges the correctness of the ruling in not sustaining his challenge for cause Jurors John Ball and O. M. Williams. On their voir dire examination these two jurors stated that they were deputy sheriffs but that they were not active. We think the objection of appellant was well taken. There are many reasons why a deputy sheriff should be disqualified in a criminal case, especially where the sheriff is a witness for the state, as in the case at bar ...” 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Edwards“A deputy sheriff, under the circumstances, cannot be said to be impartial. It is obvious that he might be interested in a conviction because of the additional fees and prison board the sheriff might thereby collect. He might be interested because his own salary might, if so agreed, depend upon the number of convictions, as is often the case, in certain counties. His loyalty to his chief and fellow deputies would certainly have its weight. The likelihood exists that he had become conversant with the facts in the case, and was more or less convinced as to the guilt of defendant. Moreover, our statute exempts a deputy sheriff from jury service. Section 8748, R.S.Mo. 1929 [Mo.St.Ann. § 8748, p. 4692]. (Citations omitted.) Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Edwards
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