Webber v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When the jury has not separated or have only momentarily separated and are still in the presence of the court and. it appears that no one has talked to the jurors about the case, the court may recall the jurors to correct their verdict. ... The record does not show that the jury had separated, even though the court had told the jurors they were excused, and they had not been out of the presence of the court- when they were reconvened to correct the verdict.[ 6 ]”

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

2. ““Now, the portion that you have filled out and signed here, it says, ‘We, the jury, find the Defendant guilty of kidnapping and assess punishment at four years, and we further find he has never been convicted in this or any other state of a felony and recommend punishment to be probated.’ Was that not your verdict?” The Foreman said: “That was not our verdict.””

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

3. “The jury deliberated for two minutes and returned a verdict showing that the punishment was not to be probated.”). . We also note that in 1998, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals surveyed cases from other jurisdictions, including Webber , before stating that”

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