378 N.J. Super. 125 - State v. Basit’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]l is difficult to contain, much less to anticipate, the direction the conversation will take at such a meeting. Unexpected questions or comments can generate unintended and misleading impressions of the judge’s subjective personal views which have no place in his instruction to the jury—all the more so when counsel are not present to challenge the statements. [United States v. U.S. Gypsum Co., 438 U.S. 422, 460 , 98 S.Ct. 2864, 2885 , 57 L.E.2d 854, 884 (1978).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tomikia Davis v. Abbas Husain, M.D. (072425)

2. “between a trial judge in chambers and a jury engaged in deliberations in the jury room concerning any matter implicated ever so remotely in the consideration and decision of the case are forbidden by the essentials of our trial procedure as imperiling, perhaps, the principles of due process.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 423 N.J. Super. 453 - State v. Morgan

3. “where the presence in the record of an adequate description of the ex parte proceeding may permit a reviewing court to determine that the presumption of prejudice has been dispelled,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 423 N.J. Super. 453 - State v. Morgan