Munn v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This Court has stated repeatedly, as in the very early case of Chastain v. State, Okl.Cr.App., 287 P. 826 : ‘It is not possible to define the term “res gestae’’ by any exact definition which will fit all cases; the term, in a general way, may be defined as the circumstances, facts, and declarations that grow out of the main fact, and shed light upon it, and tend to explain it, and made at a time so near, either prior or subsequent to the main act, as to exclude the idea of deliberation or fabrication.’ “And, further: ‘No fixed measure of time or distance from the main occurrence can be established as a rule to determine what should be a part of the res gestae. Each case must necessarily depend upon its own circumstances to establish whether the facts offered were a part of the same continuing transaction.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Webb v. State

2. ““Jurors will not be permitted to impeach or contradict their verdict by affidavits, or otherwise, after they have been discharged from the jury and mingled with the public.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Daniels v. State

3. “it has long been the law [in Oklahoma] that the sanctity of the jury room cannot be invaded.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. MCCAULEY v. STATE