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← 199 Miss. 790 - Lambert v. State

Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1946

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
April 2007
most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably Carr v. State (1995), 707 So. 2d 547 - De La Beckwith v. State (1997)

37 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on State v. Goldstein · Gurley v. State · Winchester v. State · Prince v. State · Yarbrough 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he intention of the [prosecutor] is immaterial; the test is whether the language can be reasonably construed to be a comment upon the failure of the defendant to take the stand.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Weeks v. State · 357 So. 2d 113 - Peterson v. State
  2. “The evidence for the state was uncontradicted — it stood alone as the evidence in the case — and to say so, in our opinion, cannot be construed as any sort of reference, of any character whatever, to the failure of defendant to testify. To so hold, it seems to us, would be to deny to the state the privilege of arguing the case at all.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Conway v. State · 357 So. 2d 113 - Peterson v. State
  3. “The accused shall be competent witness for himself in any prosecution for crime against him; but the failure of the accused, in any case, to testify shall not operate to his prejudice or be commented on by counsel.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 357 So. 2d 113 - Peterson v. State · 435 So. 2d 674 - Lee v. State

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.