4 Smith & H. 648 - Landers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1986
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Concededly these search warrants were invalid, and, even though Tarlton consented for the officers to search his premises, under the circumstances of this case, the search was illegal. Hampton v. State, 148 Tenn. 155 , 252 S.W. 1007 . “In such cases the trial court should follow the practice outlined in Tenpenny v. State, 151 Tenn. 669 , 270 S.W.989, and Goodwin v. State, 148 Tenn. 682 , 257 S.W. 79 . “While in Irvine v. State, 104 Tenn. 132 , 56 S.W. 845 , and in other cases, it is held that such error is cured where the evidence is withdrawn and the jury instructed to disregard same, there is force in the argument of counsel that such withdrawal does not eradicate the impression made upon the minds of the jurors, and this practice is not to be commended. Where there is doubt as to the guilt of the accused, and the court can see that such practice might have influenced the jury, it would not hesitate to reverse the case and remand it for a new trial. “In this particular case, however, we have no doubt whatever as to the guilt of these defendants, and, with this testimony excluded, the jury could not have reached a different conclusion unless they did so arbitrarily, which we cannot assume they would have done. The result being that, while the trial court should not have admitted this testimony in the first instance, since he subsequently withdrew it and instructed the jury not to consider it, and in view of the fact that we are of the opinion that it was prejudicial, follow”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.