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← 402 SO2D 350 - State v. Maples

State v. Maples’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
3
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably In Re Petition for Writ of Prohibition (1988), 431 So. 2d 454 - Tideway Oil Programs, Inc. v. Serio (1983)

1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions

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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 Peters v. Jamieson · 206 So. 2d 850 - Burt v. Duckworth · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cooper v. Howard · Planters' Insurance v. Cramer · 249 So. 2d 661 - Boydstun v. Perry

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

  1. “Failure of an appellee to file a brief is tantamount to confession of error and will be accepted as such unless the reviewing court can say with confidence, after considering the record and brief of appealing party, that there was no error.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “if the trial judge has erroneously refused to vacate the bench and there is a verdict of acquittal or a directed verdict, the defendant in the criminal case cannot be tried again because of the double jeopardy provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the State of Mississippi.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “... situations where, even though the inferior court has jurisdiction, the superior court deems it necessary and advisable to issue the writ of prevent some palpable and irremedial injustice.”
    2 later decisions 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.