Dufour v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State (1984), Dufour v. Mississippi (1985)
73 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Adams v. Texas · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 445 So. 2d 798 - Williams 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dufour v. State, 453 So.2d 337 (Miss. 1984). Billiot v. State, 454 So.2d 445 (Miss. 1984). Neal v. State, 451 So.2d 743 (Miss. 1984). Booker v. State, 449 So.2d 209 (Miss. 1984). Wilcher v. State, 448 So.2d 927 (Miss. 1984). Caldwell v. State, 443 So.2d 806 (Miss. 1983). Irving v. State, 441 So.2d 846 (Miss. 1983), and 361 So.2d 1360 (Miss. 1978). Tokman v. State, 435 So.2d 664 (Miss. 1983). Leatherwood v. State, 435 So.2d 645 (Miss. 1983). Hill v. State, 432 So.2d 427 (Miss. 1983). Pruett v. State, 431 So.2d 1101 (Miss. 1983). Gilliard v. State, 428 So.2d 576 (Miss. 1983). Evans v. State, 422 So.2d 737 (Miss. 1982). King v. State, 421 So.2d 1009 (Miss. 1982). Wheat v. State, 420 So.2d 229 (Miss. 1982). Smith v. State, 419 So.2d 563 (Miss. 1982). Edwards v. State, 413 So.2d 1007 (Miss. 1982). Johnson v. State, 416 So.2d 383 (Miss. 1982). Bullock v. State, 391 So.2d 601 (Miss. 1980). Reddix v. State, 381 So.2d 999 (Miss. 1980). Jones v. State, 381 So.2d 983 (Miss. 1980). Culberson v. State, 379 So.2d 499 (Miss. 1979). Gray v. State, 375 So.2d 994 (Miss. 1979). Jordan v. State, 365 So.2d 1198 (Miss. 1978). Voyles v. State, 362 So.2d 1236 (Miss. 1978). Washington v. State, 361 So.2d 61 (Miss. 1978). Bell v. State, 360 So.2d 1206 (Miss. 1978).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Cannaday v. State, 455 So.2d 713 (1984). Williams v. State, 445 So.2d 798 (Miss. 1984). Wiley v. State, 449 So.2d 756 (Miss. 1984).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“) His execution would be consistent and even handed with all the post- Jackson cases previously affirmed by us. Based on all of the foregoing, we hereby affirm DAVID RANDOLPH GRAY'S verdict of guilty and sentence of death. That sentence is to be carried out in the manner prescribed by law on the 26th day of June, 1985. AFFIRMED. AS TO PART I: All Justices concur. AS TO PART II: WALKER and ROY NOBLE LEE, P.JJ., and HAWKINS, PRATHER and ANDERSON, JJ., concur as to Part II. PATTERSON, C.J., and SULLIVAN and ROBERTSON, JJ., dissent as to Part II. APPENDIX”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State
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.