524 So. 2d 957 - May v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Foster v. State (1994), 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State (1995)
52 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 Hoffa v. United States · United States v. Henry · 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State · 473 So. 2d 952 - Gavin v. State · 445 So. 2d 815 - House 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“possesses peculiar knowledge or information regarding the relevant subject matter which is not likely to be possessed by a layman.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. State · Foster v. State“[i]f scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sensing the harmlessness of Mrs. Hunt's testimony, Mrs. May argues it was error to allow all the other testimony concerning her prior attempts to kill her husband. She cites no authority to support her additional claim of remoteness; however, some pre-Rules precedent might support her claim. Steed v. State, 396 So.2d 625, 627 (Miss. 1981), and Grooms v. State, 357 So.2d 292, 295-96 (Miss. 1978), both dealt with remoteness of threats made by a defendant about a victim, uncommunicated to the deceased. In both of those cases the Court intimated that threats made within two months of the killing were not too remote. In Parr v. State, 362 So.2d 634, 636 (Miss. 1978), the Court approved of admitting evidence of threats made as much as 13 months before the killing. However, in that case the Court noted, "The record indicates that for a period before the threats were made up until the date of the homicide, there was hostility, bitterness, and ill will between appellant and his wife [the deceased]. Such a situation rendered the threats relevant and competent." Thus, this Court's pre-Rule precedent seems to hold that threats made within two months of the killing are not too remote, and threats more remote may be admissible where there are linking contemporaneous threats as in Parr . On the other hand, the Court noted in Steed, Grooms and Parr that whether a threat is too remote is a question addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge. Steed, 396 So.2d at 627 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johns v. State · Teer v. State
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