Henry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2002 · most notably Chambers v. Mississippi (1973), Henry v. State of Mississippi (1965)
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
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 Mapp v. Ohio · Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia · Boyd v. United States · Rochin v. People of California
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These three attorneys, namely, a Mississippi lawyer and two others out of New York City, possess high literary and legal attainments, and are all experienced trial lawyers. * * * A reading of this record demonstrates that their positions were at all times highly adversary in behalf of their client, and that judicial character was present in the proceedings at all times. In such circumstances, even if honest mistakes of counsel in respect to policy or strategy or otherwise occur, they are binding upon the client as a part of the hazards of courtroom battle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * Nevertheless if it appears to the trial judge that the foregoing rule of procedure would defeat justice and bring about results not justified or intended by substantive law, the rule may be relaxed and subordinated to the primary purpose of the law to enforce constitutional rights in the interest of justice. * * *" ( 253 Miss. at 287 , 174 So.2d at 351)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was not legally necessary or required for the securing and serving of a warrant for the arrest of the defendant or a search warrant for the premises occupied by the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.