Witherspoon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2004
7 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 Gotthelf v. Commissioner · United States v. Sisson · Pepper v. State · 220 So. 2d 295 - Turner v. State · 231 So. 2d 798 - Ratliff v. Nail
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trial judges are vested with much discretion in the conduct of judicial proceedings. Turner v. State, 220 So.2d 295, 297 (Miss.1969) ... We will look with favor upon the action of a trial judge in deciding whether a mistrial or new trial should be ordered on account of an unauthorized communication to a juror. His rulings on such matters will generally not be ground for reversal except in cases where there is an abuse of such discretion below.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o hold that reversal upon these facts is required would be tantamount to saying that almost any trial could be aborted....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]rial judges are vested with much discretion in the conduct of judicial proceedings,”
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.