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← 194 Miss. 315 - Schwartz v. State

Schwartz v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1943

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 2008
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Logsdon v. State

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

  1. “a [criminal] jury should be given ample time to consider its verdict; and how long should it be held together for that purpose is for the trial judge, which decision will not be disturbed ... in the absence of the disclosure of such an abuse of this power by the trial judge as indicates that the jury was coerced into returning to a verdict.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.