Johnson v. Simons’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · 32 Colo. App. 293 - Western Slope Gas Co. v. Lake Eldora Corp. · Santilli v. Pueblo · 17 Wash. 2d 523 - Case v. Peterson · 21 Utah 2d 33 - Hathaway v. Marx
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon an inquiry as to the validity of a verdict or an indictment no evidence shall be received to show the effect of any statement, conduct, event or condition upon the mind of a juror as influencing him to assent to or dissent from the verdict or indictment or concerning the mental processes by which it was determined, except as provided in Rule 59, U.R.C.P. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Couch“affidavits from jurors who sat on the case which would indicate that the jury were confused as to the applicable law as enunciated by the court in its instructions, or that they disregarded the law in arriving at a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Couch
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.