Pryor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2004
15 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 214 So. 2d 589 - Armstrong v. State · 336 So. 2d 1317 - Hannah v. State · Cameron v. HOOTSELL, LBR. & SUP. CO. · Grady v. State · Mississippi Central Railroad v. Robinson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the state had the evidence when the request was made. (2) How long before trial the state acquired the evidence. (3) Whether or not the defendant asked for a continuance upon the introduction of evidence. (4) Whether or not the introduction of the evidence was harmful and prejudicial to the defendant in the light of all the circumstances. [ Id. at 1065 ].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well established in Mississippi that a jury, as the finder of fact, is entitled to consider not only facts as testified to by witnesses, but all inferences that may be reasonably and logically deduced from the facts and evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Upon request] the defendant should be permitted to inspect tangible evidence which may be used against him... .”
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.