73 So. 2d 218 - State v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1996
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Perry v. Bailey · Bartlett v. Patton · Turner v. State · Linsley v. State · Coker v. Hayes
Most-quoted passages
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“"As to the ground upon which the new trial was ordered, it is settled that a juror, after solemnly entering his verdict in court, is not to be believed or heard when, after the discharge of the jury of which he was a member, he swears that he never approved or consented to the verdict; and that after the return of a verdict in open court the testimony of jurors as to motives and influences by which their deliberations were governed should not be received. "As the matter is stated in Turner v. State, 99 Fla. 246 , 126 So. 158 , 159: "`"The general rule is that affidavits of jurors are admissible to explain and uphold their verdict, but not to impeach and overthrow it. But this general rule is subject to this qualification, that affidavits of jurors may be received, for the purpose of avoiding a verdict, to show any matter occurring during the trial or in the jury room which does not essentially inhere in the verdict itself." In fact "the rule is general, with but few exceptions, if any, that the testimony of jurors will not be received to impeach their verdict." Linsley v. State, 88 Fla. 135 , 101 So. 273, 275 ; 27 R.C.L. 896; Bartlett v. Patton, 33 W. Va. 71 , 10 S.E. 21 , 5 L.R.A. 523 . "`The matters stated in the affidavit show that it inheres essentially in the verdict itself. "`The general rule appears to have always been that affidavits of jurors would not be received to show that a juror or jurors misunderstood the court's charge. If they differ about the instructions o”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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