Woods v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding an irrebuttable presumption of prejudice where three state witnesses — two police officers and the sheriff — repeatedly visited jury members in a room where the jury congregated during recesses and intermissions
• where the Supreme Court of Indiana held that the police officers’/state’s witnesses’ conduct in visiting with jury members was “prima facie prejudicial” to the criminal defendant
• court has authority to order remodeling to provide facilities to segregate juries from witnesses
• a court has the right and duty to order appropriations for purposes of remodeling jury quarters where the autonomy of its branch is jeopardized by decrepit facilities because the judiciary is an independent and equal branch of the government with powers coequal with its duties
• where police officers visited with the jury during recess

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

51 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Troupe
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-06-11· cited 159×
• O'Coin's, Inc. v. Treasurer of the County of Worcester
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-09-19· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Bailey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-07· cited 112×
• NOBLE CTY. COUNCIL ETC. v. State Ex Rel. Fifer
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1955-04-07· cited 76×
• State v. Livingston
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-09-05· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Lavalley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-07-15· cited 73×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-12· cited 70×
• Burrus v. Silhavy
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1973-03-21· cited 60×
• Boles v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-01-10· cited 52×
• Ernesto Roberto Ramirez v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2014-04-29· cited 50×
• State v. Kendricks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-12-05· cited 47×
• Pointon v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-02-21· cited 44×
• Carlson v. State Ex Rel. Stodola
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1966-10-18· cited 43×
• Kelley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-06-07· cited 40×
• Vaughn v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-08-04· cited 38×
• Ketcham v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1959-11-16· cited 34×
• Myers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1960-06-28· cited 33×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1964-09-28· cited 32×
• Knuepfer v. Fawell
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-01-24· cited 29×
• May v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-09-23· cited 27×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State ex rel. Hovey v. Noble
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1889-04-20· cited 118×
• Little v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1883-05-15· cited 59×
• Board of Commissioners v. Gwin
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1894-01-23· cited 58×
• State ex rel. Yancey v. Hyde
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1889-11-07· cited 47×
• Smythe v. Boswell
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1889-02-19· cited 42×
• Pearman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1954-02-11· cited 41×
• Board of Commissioners v. Stout
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1893-11-28· cited 38×
• Polson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1893-12-21· cited 38×
• Langenberg v. Decker
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1892-05-10· cited 34×
• McDonel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1883-05-15· cited 32×
• Thompson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1871-11-15· cited 28×
• Ex parte Griffiths
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1889-03-15· cited 22×
• Griffith v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1895-01-09· cited 18×
• Cross v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1892-05-24· cited 15×