357 So. 2d 113 - Peterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2007
20 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 Love v. State · State v. Goldstein · Gurley v. State · Winchester v. State · Lambert 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 13-1-9. Competency of an accused. The accused shall be a competent witness for himself in any prosecution for crime against him. The failure of the accused, in any case, to testify shall not however operate to his prejudice or be commented on by counsel. [Emphasis added]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The accused shall be a competent witness for himself in any prosecution for crime against him. The failure of the accused, in any case, to testify shall not however operate to his prejudice or be commented on by counsel. " (Emphasis added). This statute was cited as far back as 1893 in the case of Yarbrough v. State, 70 Miss. 593 , 12 So. 551 (1893), in which this Court stated: The word "comment", as employed in the statute, does not mean to criticize or condemn or anathematize the accused on his failure to testify. It forbids, in unmistakable language, any comment, friendly or unfriendly. It forbids any remark, of any character, in any words, upon the failure of the accused to testify. The attention of the jury is not to be called to the fact at all by counsel. Yarbrough, 70 Miss. at 594 , 12 So. 551 (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[E]ach case on these types of matters has to be considered in the light of that particular case. The facts of all are different ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conway v. State
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.