Rivers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 1970
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hughes v. State · Crockerham v. State · Busby v. State · Bennett v. State · Bridges 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The court instructs the jury for the state that if you believe from all the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant deliberately shot and killed the deceased with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol, malice may be inferred.’” ( 151 Miss. at 707 , 118 So. at 432 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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