Sligar v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2013
14 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 Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Belisle v. Anzivino · United States v. Vaccaro · United States v. Bertolotti · Soffar v. Texas
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Juror] notes are not to be included in the record on appeal. State v. Kipf, 234 Neb. 227 , 450 N.W.2d 397, 415 (1990). The notes are to be treated as confidential between the juror and the other jurors. They must be destroyed in the presence of the Court immediately upon acceptance and filing of the verdict. Although failure to destroy the notes will not per se constitute reversible error, in the absence of some highly extraordinary circumstances there is no basis for appellate review of the juror’s notes. Nor will they serve to impeach the jury’s verdict. Esaw [v. Friedman, 217 Conn. 553 ], 586 A.2d [1164] at 1170 [ (1991) ]. To review a juror’s notes would violate the sanctity of the deliberative process. Id.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Morris“[al trial court's decision may be affirmed on appeal if the decision is legally supportable, but for a reason different than the one given by the judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.