O'Connor v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 30 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Holding this ruling of the General Court of Virginia as correct, we are of opinion, that if the prisoner, at any time before any juror was or jurors were sworn, had retracted his election of such juror or jurors and expressed his desire to challenge him or them, it was his right to do so until the whole of his peremptory challenges were exhausted."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 464 So. 2d 1181 - Jackson v. State · 301 So. 2d 461 - Shelby v. State

2. “"`The true doctrine is, that if the juror's conceptions are not fixed and settled, nor warped by prejudice, but are only such as would naturally spring from public rumor or newspaper report, and his mind is open to the impressions it may receive on the trial, so as to be convinced according to the law and the testimony, he is not incompetent.'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 109 So. 2d 7 - Singer v. State

3. “"... this Court is unanimously of opinion that the right of a prisoner to challenge any juror peremptorily is absolute at any time before the juror is sworn, and that no circumstances can bring that right within the discretion of the court so long as it is confined to the number of peremptory challenges allowed by law."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 301 So. 2d 461 - Shelby v. State