392 So. 2d 203 - Broadus v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2012
8 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 Davis v. Alaska · Hamburg v. State · Grillis v. State · 355 So. 2d 1389 - McVeay v. State · White 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ut since the indictment did not specify the amount of marijuana sold, punishment would be imposed under section 41-29-139(c)(2)(B) Mississippi Code Annotated (Supp.1977) which provides for a lesser penalty than section 41-29-139(c)(2)(A) Mississippi Code Annotated (Supp. 1971)_ In White v. State, 374 So.2d 225 (Miss.1979) we held that when the facts which constitute a criminal offense may fall under either of two statutes, the statute which imposes the lesser punishment will apply. Accord. Grillis v. State, 196 Miss. 576 , 17 So.2d 525 (1944).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clubb v. State“On retrial defendant should be permitted to show all the convictions of the witness regardless of the age of the witness at the time of the convictions.”
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.