Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. “In Evans v. State, 275 So.2d 83 (Miss. 1973), p. 85, in quoting from a United States Supreme Court decision, we stated: "The Court pointed out in Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160 , 69 S.Ct. 1302 , 93 L.Ed. 1879 (1948): `In dealing with probable cause, * * * as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act. ( 338 U.S. at 175 , 69 S.Ct. at 1310 , 93 L.Ed. * * * at 1890).' "It has been said that ordinarily, when the trustworthy evidence makes it clear that an offense has been committed * * and then available evidence makes it reasonable to infer that the particular person not necessarily was, but may have been, one of the offenders, most discreet and prudent men would order that person's arrest." 394 So.2d at 328 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · 450 So. 2d 69 - Lanier v. State