472 So. 2d 363 - Lancaster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State (1987), 863 So. 2d 836 - Byrom v. State (2003)
1 federal appellate · 49 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 308 So. 2d 71 - Newell v. State · Cook v. State · 297 So. 2d 888 - Pittman v. State · 385 So. 2d 1298 - Norman v. State · 271 So. 2d 735 - Craft 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ynonymous phrases or interchangeable words may be used in a jury instruction and the jury still be properly instructed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[j]ury instructions should be given only if they are applicable to the facts developed in the case being tried.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court instructs the jury that if you find from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that: 1. Dorothy A. Tally was a living human being; and 2. Dorothy A. Tally died as a result of Carl Moffett operating his automobile in a culpably negligent manner; and 3. The acts of Carl Moffett caused the death of Dorothy A. Tally in that his acts at said time and place exhibited a wanton or reckless disregard for the safety of human life, to-wit: by driving his automobile at an excessive rate of speed while under the influence of intoxicating liquors; failing to maintain a proper lookout for other vehicles then and there on the highway; and striking in the rear the vechile [sic] then and there occupied by Dorothy A. Tally; and 4. That said killing and slaying occurred on the 2nd day of March, 1985, in the Second Judicial District of Jasper County, Mississippi, then you should find the defendant, Carl Moffett, guilty of manslaughter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.