Reining v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 672 So. 2d 744 - Nicholson on Behalf of Gollott v. State (1996), Edwards v. State (2001)
25 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 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. United States · United States v. Brown · 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State · 471 So. 2d 332 - Cabello v. State · 463 So. 2d 1048 - West 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a statute imposing criminal penalties must be strictly construed in favor of the accused, it should not be so strict as to override common sense or statutory purpose. United States v. Brown, 333 U.S. 18, 25 , 68 S.Ct. 376, 380 , 92 L.Ed. 442 , 448 (1948); see also State v. Burnham, 546 So.2d 690, 692 (Miss.1989). Strict construction means reasonable construction. State v. Martin, 495 So.2d 501, 502 (Miss.1986). This Court has held that the test concerning statutory construction is whether a person of ordinary intelligence would, by reading the statute, receive fair notice of that which is required or forbidden. Burnham, 546 So.2d at 692 ; Roberson v. State, 501 So.2d 398, 400 (Miss.1987); Cassibry v. State, 404 So.2d 1360, 1368 (Miss.1981).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f an indictment reasonably provides the accused with actual notice and it complies with Rule 2.05 of the Unif.Crim.R.Cir.Ct.Prac., it is sufficient to charge the defendant with the crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. State · McNeal v. State“[a]lthough there are no degrees of bodily injury stated in the statute, a minor injury is a `bodily injury' even though it may not be a traumatic injury.”
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.