597 So. 2d 192 - Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2017
12 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 519 So. 2d 418 - West v. State · 555 So. 2d 679 - Dennis v. State · Laney v. State · 576 So. 2d 1243 - Folk v. State · 502 So. 2d 1193 - Shoemaker 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because of this, we have repeatedly cautioned trial judges against interjecting before the jury impermissible or otherwise extraneous matters. A trial for murder is the most serious matter any court may entertain. Where, as here, the evidence is somewhat circumstantial and inconclusive, and where the Court has substantially instructed the jury that it consider a matter extraneous to the process, the risk of a misdirected verdict becomes intolerably high. We presume that the case was heard before a jury of intelligent laymen. Still, instructions should not test whether the jury may run successfully a course in labyrinthian logic. In the end, we cannot help but accept that placing the (non)issue of self-defense before the jury, and giving it a place of prominence in excess of that given the defense of accident [alibi], resulted in the substantial risk that the jury misapprehended the law in the course of its deliberations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“One cannot read the instruction without forming the opinion that the principal defense to be considered is self-defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our well settled rule is that on appeal we consider complaints of error in jury instructions by reading the instructions as a whole. All instructions “are to be read together and if the jury is fully and fairly instructed by other instructions the refusal of any similar instruction does not constitute reversal error.” Laney v. State, 486 So.2d 1242, 1246 (Miss.1986).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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