536 So. 2d 957 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although the factors upon which the trial court's determination of prejudice is made must necessarily vary from case to case, some of the factors which other courts have considered pertinent are: temporal remoteness of the matter inquired about, the ambiguity of the question propounded, the prospective juror's inadvertence or willfulness in falsifying or failing to answer, the failure of the juror to recollect, and the materiality of the matter inquired about.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dixon v. State · Jones v. State

2. “The fact that the juror testified at the hearing on the motion for a new trial that his relationship to the deputy sheriff [which he had not disclosed] did not affect his ability to judge the appellant fairly would not overcome the prejudice to the appellant.”

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