State v. Ashley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An appeal does not lie on behalf of the State or a municipality under section 19, Code of 1930, from a judgment of acquittal based upon a directed verdict in favor of a defendant in a criminal case where the peremptory instruction in such case is granted because of the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the charge made in the affidavit or indictment, even though the question involved on the ruling of the trial court may be a mixed one of law and fact. City of Pascagoula v. Delmas, et al., 157 Miss. 619 , 128 So. 743 ; State v. Bourdon, 126 Miss. 877 , 89 So. 769 ; State v. Adams, 123 Miss. 514 , 86 So. 337 ; State v. Willingham, 86 Miss. 203 , 38 So. 334 ; State v. Brooks, 102 Miss. 661 , 59 So. 860 ; City of Jackson v. Harland, 112 Miss. 41 , 72 So. 850 ; City of Pascagoula v. Cunningham, 141 Miss. 604 , 106 So. 886 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jackson