Brockett v. Tice’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1992
8 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 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Acosta · M. J. Const. Co. v. Deatherage · Alexander Schroeder Lumber Co. v. Merritt
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellee’s basic position is that he had a right to ask the questions of the panel that are set out in the formal bill of exception, because he was entitled to obtain information from which it could be determined whether a juror was disqualified in the case on trial because of bias or prejudice. We might add that an attorney is entitled to obtain information to aid him in determining whether to exercise a peremptory challenge. Too, it is appellee’s position that if the mentioning of insurance was error it was harmless error. “We are of the view that the effect of appellee’s counsel asking the jury panel if any of them had any connection with any insurance company was to convey the impression that appellant had insurance. The question was knowingly and deliberately asked by counsel, as shown by his brief and in oral argument before this Court on the theory that he was entitled to get this information as a base for further questioning as to whether this would cause bias or prejudice on the part of the juror. This was error. There are other ways of questioning which can develop this fact without asking the question in that form before the whole panel.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . counsel then asked the whole panel ‘whether any of them thought that a verdict in the case would affect their insurance rates.’ The necessary effect of this was to infer that appellant had insurance because a verdict could not possibly affect their rates unless he had insurance. This was error.” 445 S.W.2d at 22 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borkoski v. Yost
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.