555 So. 2d 679 - Dennis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State (1995)
59 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Castaneda v. Partida · Avery v. State of Georgia · 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · McFee 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent unusual circumstances, where objection is sustained to improper questioning or testimony, and the jury is admonished to disregard the question or testimony, we will not find error”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A violation of Rule 4.06 of the Uniform Criminal Rules of Circuit Court [now U.R.C.C.C. 9.04] is harmless error "unless it shall affirmatively appear, from the whole record, that such ... has resulted in a miscarriage of justice." McKinney v. State, 482 So.2d 1129 (Miss.1986) (quoting Buckhalter v. State, 480 So.2d 1128 (Miss.1985)). In the case before us, and under its facts, the error has, indeed, proved harmless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“all instructions must be supported by evidence”
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.