595 So. 2d 1320 - Stringfellow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994), Taylor v. State (1996)
37 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 McNeal v. State · 478 So. 2d 266 - Keys v. State · 481 So. 2d 793 - MacK v. State · 503 So. 2d 277 - Clark v. State · 580 So. 2d 1182 - King 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.
“The rule in Mississippi is that a circumstantial evidence instruction should be given only when the prosecution can produce neither eyewitnesses or a confession to the offense charged.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State · Mangum v. State“to the exclusion of every reasonable hypothesis other than guilt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Taylor v. State“and to the exclusion of every reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence,”
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.