457 So. 2d 327 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State (1985), 737 So. 2d 322 - Puckett v. State (1999)
25 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 Ashe v. Swenson · 249 So. 2d 414 - Curry v. State · Forrest v. State · 429 So. 2d 245 - Sanders v. State · Coleman 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here appellant cites numerous instances of improper and prejudicial conduct by the prosecutor, this Court has not been constrained from considering the merits of the alleged prejudice by the fact that objections were made and sustained, or that no objections were made.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Stewart v. State, 263 So.2d 754 (Miss.1972), this Court, citing Johns v. State[ 255 So.2d 322 (Miss. 1971)], held that the state's cross-examination of an important defense witness to the effect that every place he had worked seemed to have been burglarized was clearly erroneous where there was no record that he had even been accused of the burglaries to which insinuation was made. Id. at 758. This Court also relied on 98 C.J.S. Witnesses § 515, p. 423 (1957), which states: Cross-examination into the character of a witness may not be in the form of attempts to discredit him by means of sneers and innuendo. Hence it is improper, under the pretense of affecting the credibility of a witness, to propound interrogatories without any attempt or pretense to establish the truthfulness of the matters suggested by such inquiry and thereby cast insinuations on the witness....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“prior consistent statements of a witness are admissible when his credibility has been attacked by proof of prior inconsistent statements for the purpose of rebuttal [cites omitted] provided the witness denies having made the alleged inconsistent statement, or admits them, but explains them.”
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.