293 So. 2d 818 - Bright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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

1. “"The parties or their attorneys in all jury trials shall have the right to question jurors who are being impaneled with reference to challenges for cause, and for peremptory challenges, and it shall not be necessary to propound the questions through the presiding judge, but they may be asked by the attorneys or by litigants not represented by attorneys."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State · 314 So. 2d 724 - Peters v. State

2. “All the provisions of law in relation to the listing, drawing, summoning and impaneling juries are directory merely, and a jury listed, drawn, summoned or impaneled, though in an informal or irregular manner, shall be deemed a legal jury after it shall have been impaneled and sworn, and it shall have the power to perform all the duties devolving on the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 314 So. 2d 724 - Peters v. State

3. “In Jackson v. State, 243 So.2d 396 (Miss. 1970) we held that a defendant charged with possession of marijuana was entitled to a sample of the contraband for his inspection and analysis, 293 So.2d at 821 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 441 So. 2d 1353 - Love v. State