498 So. 2d 796 - Bridgeforth v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

cited by 33 later decisions

states following

January 2018

most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Cole v. State (1987), Taylor v. State (1996)

33 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 Agee v. State · 485 So. 2d 681 - West v. State · Tolbert v. State · Lambert v. State · 433 So. 2d 1142 - Wilson 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“); Ellis v. State, 254 So.2d 902 (Miss. 1971) (defendant termed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Gray v. State · Taylor v. State
“District attorneys must not directly, or by innuendo and insinuation, comment on a defendant's not testifying. Any person competent to be a prosecuting attorney knows that elementary principle of law. If a prosecuting attorney, who is presumed to know better, persists in making erroneous and prejudicial remarks in his argument before the jury, then the trial court should deal harshly with him to the extent of sanctions, reprimands and contempt. [3] This Court will not look for some reason to excuse such action of a prosecuting attorney, even though a new trial would be expensive to the people of the county. Such expenses, fault and blame should be placed at the door of the person who is responsible for it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 741 So. 2d 894 - McGilberry v. State · 525 So. 2d 1300 - Livingston v. State
“The accused shall be a competent witness for himself in any prosecution for crime against him. The failure of the accused, in any case, to testify shall not however operate to his prejudice or be commented on by counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 515 So. 2d 860 - Monroe v. State · 525 So. 2d 1300 - Livingston 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.