Pierre v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 697 So. 2d 777 - Coleman v. State (1997), 735 So. 2d 238 - Hughes v. State (1999)
51 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Katz v. United States · Rhode Island v. Innis · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · Bauer v. Waldschmidt
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A new trial is to be granted if the jury's verdict so contradicts `the overwhelming weight of the evidence that, to allow it to stand, would be to sanction an unconscionable injustice.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether there has been under the totality of the circumstances a knowing and voluntary waiver of the accused's privilege against self-incrimination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court's finding of voluntariness will not be reversed by this Court unless the trial court committed manifest error or made its decision contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence. Chisolm v. State, 529 So.2d 630, 634 (Miss.1988); Frost v. State, 483 So.2d 1345, 1350 (Miss. 1986); Gavin v. State, 473 So.2d 952, 955 (Miss.1985). In its determination, the trial court must look to the state to prove the necessary facts beyond a reasonable doubt. Gavin, 473 So.2d at 954 ; see also Chisolm, 529 So.2d at 634 ; Neal v. State, 451 So.2d 743 (Miss.1984), cert. denied, Neal v. Mississippi, 469 U.S. 1098 , 105 S.Ct. 607 , 83 L.Ed.2d 716 .”
1 later decision 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.