Baumle v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Fleshner v. Pepose Vision Institute, P.C. (2010), Elmore v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1984)
43 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 Cluck v. Abe · Delay Ex Rel. Delay v. Ward · Southern Pac. Co. v. Klinge · Conser v. Atchison, T. & SF Ry. Co. · Bloch v. Kinder
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No one is competent to impeach a verdict by the making of an affidavit as to matters inherent in the verdict, such as that the juror did not understand the law as contained in the court’s instructions, or that he did not join in the verdict, or that he voted a certain way due to a misconception of the evidence, or misunderstood the statements of a witness, or was mistaken in his calculations, or other matters “resting alone in the juror’s breast.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McBride v. Farley · Stotts v. Meyer“may not have his mental processes and innermost thoughts put on a slide for examination under the judicial microscope.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.