State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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

1. “Familiarity with facts, or purported facts, from news reports without the formation of an opinion does not necessarily require disqualification of a juror. State v. Spica, 389 S.W.2d 35 (Mo.1965), cert. denied, 383 U.S. 972 , 86 S.Ct. 1277 , 16 L.Ed.2d 312 (1966). Defendant’s right to a fair and impartial jury does not extend to having a jury panel which is completely devoid of any news reports, and as the United States Supreme Court recently ruled in Nebraska Press Association v. Steward, 427 U.S. 539 , 96 S.Ct. 2791 , 49 L.Ed.2d 683 (1976), “. . . [TJhese cases demonstrate that pretrial publicity — even pervasive, adverse publicity — does not inevitably lead to an unfair trial.” Id. at 553 , 96 S.Ct. at 2800 .”

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

2. ““. . . Ussery himself removed any objection to admitting the confessions in evidence by testifying to the matters contained in them, thus confirming their truth. Involuntary confessions are rejected as evidence because they are regarded as testimonially unreliable and untrustworthy . . . Yet when the truth of a confession is established by the very person who made it under oath in open court, he may not be permitted to claim error because of the use of the confession on the ground it was involuntary.””

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