451 So. 2d 775 - Blanks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2006
24 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 Neil v. Biggers · 330 So. 2d 591 - Sharplin v. State · Warn v. State · 359 So. 2d 1355 - Scott v. State · 196 So. 2d 878 - Carroll 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we found no error in a circuit judge's refusal to grant a severance `where all the evidence at the trial went to the guilt of both appellants and not to one more than the other.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Strahan v. State“defendant renews his motions previously filed ... and additionally moves for a mistrial " because of references to past charges not resulting in convictions. It appears, therefore, that this point was successfully preserved for appeal, and furnishes a basis for reversal. Because of the errors discussed above, the judgment of the circuit court must be reversed and the case remanded for a new trial. REVERSED AND REMANDED. PATTERSON, C.J., WALKER and ROY NOBLE LEE, P. JJ., and HAWKINS, DAN M. LEE, PRATHER, ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ., concur. NOTES [1] Today's result is consistent with the Mississippi Rules of Evidence, effective January 1, 1986, on two counts. First, the substance of the testimony sought to be elicited from Agent Anderson "was apparent from the context within which questions were asked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Defendants tried jointly must agree in their challenges made without cause, and shall be entitled to only the number to which one defendant is entitled.”
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.