State v. Leimer’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1991
3 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 Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co. · State v. Saussele · State v. Jordan · State v. Lorts · State v. Baublits
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[I]n determining the sufficiency of a verdict, the controlling object is to learn the intent of the jury; and, if such intent may be ascertained and the verdict made definite and certain by reference to the pleadings and instructions, it will be sustained * * *.’” “ ‘The verdict of a jury, even in a criminal case, is not to be tested by technical rules of construction.’ ‘[V]erdicts should be liberally construed in view of the intention of the jury and of the issues presented and all reasonable presumptions are indulged to sustain a verdict.’ ‘It is a wholesome precept that verdicts should be given a reasonable intendment and a like construction, and are not to be avoided unless it is evident they will work manifest injustice.’” “ ‘Finally, but certainly not least importantly, a standard frequently employed in determining the legal sufficiency of the verdict in a criminal case is that the verdict must be sufficiently definite and certain “that upon the entry of a judgment thereon it would have constituted a bar to a further prosecution * * * for the same offense.”’””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. State“The intent of the jury is paramount. “ ‘ “[I]n determining the sufficiency of a verdict, the controlling object is to learn the intent of the jury; and, if such intent may be ascertained and the verdict made definite and certain by reference to the pleadings and instructions, it will be sustained * * [Footnote with citations omitted.] “ ‘The verdict of a jury, even in a criminal case, is not to be tested by technical rules of construction.’ ” [Footnote with citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swinney v. State
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.