Thigpen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 20 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The only other question necessary for a decision in this case is whether or not the Court erred on overruling the motion to dismiss the appeal with procedendo. This question has been set at rest in this State by the decision in Bang v. State, 106 Miss. 824 , 64 So. 734 . It was there decided that one appealing a conviction from the Justice of the Peace court to the Circuit Court stands there for trial de novo as defendant and he occupies in that court the same attitude of a defendant as he did in the court of the Justice of the Peace and as such is impotent to dismiss the case. He had no more right to dismiss the appeal in the Circuit Court than he had to enter a nolle prosequi in the court of the Justice of the Peace. No defendant charged with a crime for the commission of which he is upon trial has a right to dismiss the case from the docket. He was on trial for the crime charged against him. His case was being disposed of as other and like cases in that court. The lower court was correct in overruling the motion to dismiss the appeal with procedendo." ( 39 So.2d at 769-770 ).”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Collins · Nelson v. State

2. “no effort on the part of the defendant to procure the presence of the witness until the trial ... was practically in progress.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Charles E. Blake v. State of Mississippi · 716 So. 2d 1096 - Wilson v. State