Wiser v. People’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 46 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(b) Inquiry into validity of verdict or indictment. Upon an inquiry into the validity of a verdict or indictment, a juror may not testify as to any matter or statement occurring during the course of the jury's deliberations or to the effect of anything upon his or any other juror's mind or emotions as influencing him to assent to or dissent from the verdict or indictment or concerning his mental processes in connection therewith, except that a juror may testify on the question of whether extraneous prejudicial information was improperly brought to the jurors' attention or whether any outside influence was improperly brought to bear upon any juror. Nor may his affidavit or evidence of any statement by him concerning a matter about which he would be precluded from testifying be received for these purposes.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Wadle · Ravin v. Gambrell, by and Through Eddy

2. “where there is a reasonable possibility that the verdict was tainted by the introduction of outside information or influences into the jury deliberations.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Whitman · People v. Wadle

3. “[clonsidering the reasonable inferences most favorable to the defendant ... we fail to see how he could have been prejudiced by the [jury's] conduct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Wadle · People v. Clark