540 So. 2d 1319 - Whitehurst v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 556 So. 2d 1016 - Jefferson v. State (1989), 860 So. 2d 704 - Howell v. State (2003)
38 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Cupp v. Murphy · Breithaupt v. Abram · Smith v. State · 478 So. 2d 1017 - Harper 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant may request an instruction regarding any offense carrying a lesser punishment if the lesser offense arises out of a nucleus of operative fact common with the factual scenario giving rise to the charge laid in the indictment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ll evidentiary rules, whether provided by statute, court decision or court rule, which are inconsistent with the Mississippi Rules of Evidence are hereby repealed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“be considered as an element constituting gross and careless disregard for the value of human life,”
2 later decisions 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.