227 So. 2d 847 - McCaskill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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

1. “Many of the questions sought a committal as to what the juror would do or would not do in the case about to be tried. The examination should be in the abstract as to the class of case about to be tried and not as to what the prospective juror might or might not do in the particular case about to be tried. ( 227 So.2d at 852 )”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 246 So. 2d 920 - Murphy v. State · 544 So. 2d 782 - Williams v. State

2. “[I]t is the duty of the district attorney to prosecute a case with diligence, he should guard against doing or saying anything that would prejudice the minds of the jurors and tend to cause them to decide a case on something other than the evidence. In his argument to the jury he should not inject statements of facts and conclusions not justified by the evidence. It is a part of his duty to see that the defendant as well as the State receives a fair and impartial trial. McCaskill v. State, 227 So.2d 847 (Miss. 1969); Adams v. State, 202 Miss. 68 , 30 So.2d 593 (1947); Allen v. State, 175 Miss. [745] 145, 166 So. 922 (1936).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hubbard v. State

3. “In construing constitutional provisions, the courts should look to the history of the times and examine the state of things in existence when the Constitutional provision in question was adopted, in order to ascertain the mischief sought to be remedied.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 716 So. 2d 645 - Pro-Choice Mississippi v. Fordice