Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2017
14 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 Dozier v. State · 368 So. 2d 842 - Ramseur v. State · 370 So. 2d 930 - Fermo v. State · Williams v. State · 300 So. 2d 788 - Dyer 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is paramount on the party filling a motion to follow up that action by bringing it to the attention of the trial judge and requesting a hearing on it. Sharplin v. State, 357 So.2d 940 (Miss. 1978); Dyer v. State, 300 So.2d 788 (Miss. 1974). As previously stated, the record is absent of any such action taken by Lambert. Further, trial judges are vested with broad discretionary powers in granting or refusing to grant a continuance. Carter v. State, 473 So.2d 471 (Miss. 1985); Greene v. State, 406 So.2d 805 (Miss. 1981). This Court will not hold a trial court's granting or denial of a motion for a continuance to be error unless such amounts to an abuse of discretion that acts to prejudice the defendant. Fermo v. State, 370 So.2d 930 (Miss. 1979). As the record reflects no action taken by Lambert in furtherance of the motion, and as there was no evidence of any abuse of discretion on the part of the trial judge, the assignment of error is without merit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Any ... person holding any public ... employment, ... or any other person undertaking to act for others and intrusted by them with business of any kind, or with money, ... [who] unlawfully convert[s] to his own use ... any money or other valuable thing which comes to his hand or possession by virtue of his ... employment ... shall, on conviction, be ..."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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