Leeper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Although Leeper’s jury had ‘retired’ after the judge had delivered his instructions, in the sense that the jurors had gone to the jury room, it had not done so ‘to consider its verdict.’ This is evident from the undisputed fact that the deputy clerk left the door open and instructed the jurors ‘not to do anything.’ Nothing in the record suggests that the jury ignored this direction, nor was there any contemporaneous claim that this had occurred or that additional prophylactic measures were appropriate.””

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

2. “[fallowing a proper hearing, the determination of juror bias or prejudice lies particularly within the discretion of the trial court, reversible only for a clear abuse of discretion, and the findings of fact under lying that determination are entitled to “great deference.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. United States