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← 242 MISS 454 - Pope v. State

Pope v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1961

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 1982
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Lewis v. State · Sellers v. City of Picayune · Revette v. State · Walker v. State · Baylis 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “. where the whiskey is not found upon premises in the exclusive possession and control of the accused there must be additional incriminating facts connecting him with such possession, other than the mere finding of the whiskey, aided or unaided by a trail, to sustain a verdict of guilty. Lewis v. State, 198 Miss. 767 , 23 So.2d 401 ; Walker v. State, 199 Miss. 289 , 24 So.2d 751 ; Sellers v. City of Picayune, 202 Miss. 741 , 32 So.2d 450 ; Baylis v. State, 209 Miss. 335 , 46 So.2d 796 ; Hansbrough v. State, 209 Miss. 625 , 48 So.2d 120 ; Revette v. State, 209 Miss. 860 , 48 So.2d 511 ; Foster v: State, Miss., 49 So.2d 258 . . . . (218 Miss, at 267, 67 So.2d at 291 )”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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