190 So. 2d 869 - Mister v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"`This Court has adopted a rule that a defendant can be convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice, but it has carefully restricted the scope of that doctrine by holding that such uncorroborated testimony should be viewed with great caution and suspicion, and that it must be reasonable and not improbable or self-contradictory, or substantially impeached.'" 190 So.2d at 870 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. State · 371 So. 2d 408 - Moody v. State

2. “"The State's case was sufficient to survive defendant's request for a peremptory instruction, but under all the circumstances, the verdict is against the great weight of the evidence. The motion for a new trial should have been sustained. Since the evidence of defendant's guilt is of such nature as to create a serious doubt in our minds, we think that another jury should be permitted to pass upon this question. Cole v. State, 217 Miss. 779 , 65 So.2d 262 (1953); Dickerson v. State, 54 So.2d 925 (Miss. 1951); Jefferson v. State, 52 So.2d 925 (Miss. 1951); Conway v. State, 177 Miss. 461 , 171 So. 16 (1936)." 190 So.2d at 871 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 199 So. 2d 58 - Quarles v. State · 652 So. 2d 720 - Clayton v. State

3. “manifestly interested in absolving himself from guilt and putting blame on defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 268 So. 3d 534 - Jayvious Johnson v. State of Mississippi