Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 208 Miss. 236 - Seals v. State

Seals v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1950

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
2
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

41 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State (1985), Johnson v. State (1985)

41 state decisions

1001950196019701980199020002010decided

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 Barnes v. State · Weathersby v. State · Magness v. State · Keeton v. State · Eddins 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[twelve] unbiased [jurors] may be found in the county to try him. The statute contemplates that the jury shall not only be composed of unbiased and impartial [jurors], but of [jurors] who have not been and will not during the trial be subject to the influence of a popular demand for the defendant's conviction.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc. v. Bailey · Johnson v. State
  2. “is but asking for his rights when he requests a change of venue”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Johnson v. State · 493 So. 2d 1280 - Weeks v. State
  3. “"It has been for some time the established rule in this state that where the defendant or the defendant's witnesses are the only eyewitnesses to the homicide, their version, if reasonable, must be accepted as true, unless substantially contradicted in material particulars by a credible witness or witnesses for the state, or by the physical facts or by the facts of common knowledge."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 199 So. 2d 635 - May 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.