State v. Tyarks’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2012
11 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 Stovall v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Linkletter v. Walker · Turner v. Louisiana · Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We now hold that, as a general rule, it is reversible error to permit an officer, who testifies about matters which are more than merely formal aspects of the case, and whose testimony tends to prove the guilt of the defendant, to be in charge of the jury. [[Image here]] We do not believe the right to an impartial jury can be reconciled with a practice which permits a substantial witness for the State to maintain a custodial relationship with the members of the jury throughout the trial. The relationship is one which, “could not but foster the jurors’ confidence in those who were their official guardians during the entire period of the trial.” Turner v. State of Louisiana, supra, 379 U.S. 466, 474 , 85 S.Ct. 546, 550 [ 13 L.Ed.2d 424 ], (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pate
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.