551 So. 2d 77 - Minnick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

cited by 99 later decisions

cited 1 times by the Supreme Court

states following

January 2020

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 83 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 99 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably Minnick v. Mississippi (1990), 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991)

2 federal appellate · 83 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers

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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Counsel was not required to be logical in argument; he is not required to draw sound conclusions, or to have a perfect argument measured by logical and rhetorical rules; his function is to draw conclusions and inferences from evidence on behalf of his client in whatever he deems proper, so long as he does not become abusive and go outside the confines of the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 981 So. 2d 1007 - Brown v. State · 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State
“held that the fact that the sole aggravating circumstance found by the jury in its penalty decision was identical to an element of the underlying offense did not violate the Eighth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Doss v. State · 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State
“The argument is the familiar "stacking" argument that the state can elevate murder to felony murder and then, using the same circumstances, can elevate the crime to capital murder with two aggravating circumstances. As pointed out in Lockett v. State, 517 So.2d 1317, 1337 (Miss. 1987), this Court has consistently rejected this argument.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State · Goodin 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.