State v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 445 So. 2d 1171 - State v. Williams (1984), 438 So. 2d 1091 - State v. Johnson (1983)
44 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Sandstrom v. Montana · 410 So. 2d 1019 - State v. Willie · 345 So. 2d 874 - State v. Passman
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A juror must rely upon his memory in reaching a verdict. He shall not be permitted to refer to notes or to have access to any written evidence. Testimony shall not be repeated to the jury. Upon the request of a juror and in the discretion of the court, the jury may take with it or have sent to it any object or document received in evidence when a physical examination thereof is required to enable the jury to arrive at a verdict.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hailes · State v. Ray“The general reason for the prohibition is a fear that jurors might give undue weight to the limited portion of the verbal testimony thus brought into the room with them.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“In State v. Freetime, supra, this court found reversible error when the trial court permitted the jury to read the defendant's confession after retiring to deliberate. The written statement in this case, although not a confession, is an inculpatory statement made by the defendant, and the same danger which was present in Freetime is present in this case. This danger is that undue weight may be given to this particular piece of evidence. The legislature designed article 793 to prevent this precise danger. This legislative directive has not been amended, nor has Freetime been overruled: this court is bound to find that the sending of this written statement to the jury deliberation room is reversible error.”
2 later decisions 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.