671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 204 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 954 So. 2d 968 - Ross v. State (2007), Gray v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 204 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 Illinois v. Gates · Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Wainwright v. Witt
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f no contemporaneous objection is made, the error, if any, is waived.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Rogers v. State“Elementary to all trial proceedings is the proposition that the occurrence of any prejudicially incompetent matter or misconduct before a jury, the damaging effect of which cannot be removed by admonition or instructions, necessitates a mistrial. However, it is the well established rule in Mississippi that where a trial judge sustains an objection to testimony interposed by the defense in a criminal case and instructs the jury to disregard it, the remedial acts of the court are usually deemed sufficient to remove any prejudicial effect from the minds of the jurors. The jury is presumed to have followed the directions of the trial judge.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bradford v. State · Brown v. State“There never has been a perfect trial. As long as humans conduct and participate in trial of lawsuits, there will not be such a trial. This Court has said many times that a defendant is not entitled to a perfect trial, only to a fair trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wiley v. State · Walker v. State
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.