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← 240 Miss. 544 - Mattox v. State

Mattox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1961

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
6
states following
May 2010
most recently cited

39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Conner v. State (1994), State v. Driver (1962)

39 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 Frye v. United States · State v. Lowry · People v. Wochnick · 94 Okla. Crim. 45 - Henderson v. State · 63 So. 2d 339 - Kaminski 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Instructions on general reputation or character of the accused are said to be both argumentative and a comment upon the weight of the testimony.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brink v. State · 891 So. 2d 179 - Montgomery v. State
  2. “The successful attempt by the prosecution by the means employed to implant in the minds of the jury the impression that because the witness had voluntarily submitted to a lie detector test prior to trial he must perforce be testifying truthfully in the course of the trial, resulted, in effect, in the substitution of a mechanical device, without fair opportunity for cross-examination, for the time-tested, time-tried, and time-honored discretion of the judgment of a jury as to matters of credibility.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 732 So. 2d 158 - Weatherspoon v. State
  3. “neither the taking of a lie detector test nor the result thereof is admissible as evidence”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 732 So. 2d 158 - Weatherspoon 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.