Burleson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]eapons found near the place where the defendant was arrested are admissible, “even where it is not claimed nor proved that they were used in the commission of the alleged crime in cases where the evidence has probative weight, or where they constitute a part of the surrounding scene or picture, or are a part of the circumstances of the arrest.” Wilkins v. State, 264 So.2d 411, 413 (Miss.1972).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Charles E. Blake v. State of Mississippi · George Affleck v. State of Mississippi

2. “[d]irect evidence, on the other hand, must directly and not by inference implicate the accused and not just show that there has been a crime.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thaxter T. Baker v. State of Mississippi · David W. Parvin v. State of Mississippi

3. “[w]here the State is without a confession and wholly without eyewitness testimony to the gravamen of the offense charged, the defendant is entitled to an instruction requiring the jury to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis other than that of guilt before a conviction can be had.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thaxter T. Baker v. State of Mississippi