450 So. 2d 69 - Lanier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991), 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994)
50 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brinegar v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · Dunaway v. New York · Beck v. Alabama
Most-quoted passages
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“[A] jury might properly find that the threat of death or serious bodily injury was not imminently pending and thereby reject the theory of self-defense and the acquittal of a defendant. From the same facts a jury reasonably could, we think, if permitted to do so by a manslaughter instruction find a defendant not guilty of capital murder because the fatal shot was in response to a shot first fired by an officer in a tense, sudden confrontation arising without design of either party, thereby reducing the offense to manslaughter with a corresponding reduction in sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[U]nequivocally hold[s] that a manslaughter instruction is proper and essential `when the evidence warrants.' This, of course, accords with this Court's holding in Jackson v. State, 337 So.2d 1242, 1255 (Miss. 1976), where we held that instructions on a lesser included offense, `should only be given after the trial court has carefully considered the evidence and is of the opinion that such an instruction is justified by the evidence.' (citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he contradiction arising from the assumed inferences and Lanier’s statement introduced into evidence creates, at best, a conflict between inferences and testimony which could only be resolved by a jury under the guidance of proper instructions. Without the inferences the testimony is uncontradicted that [the officer] fired first and because of this he was entitled to the manslaughter instruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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