704 So. 2d 452 - Snelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State (2001), 708 So. 2d 18 - Underwood v. State (1998)
60 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 Enmund v. Florida · Lefkowitz v. Newsome · Foster v. State · 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State · 437 So. 2d 19 - Box 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Box v. State , 437 So.2d 19 (Miss.1983) (Robertson, J., specially concurring), first set forth the procedure trial courts should follow when confronted with a discovery violation. Miss. Unif. Crim. R. Cir. Ct. Prac. 4.06 [now Uniform Circuit and County Court Rule 9.04 ] now reflects the Box procedure. This procedure is equally applicable in capital cases. When faced with previously undisclosed evidence to which the defendant has objected, the trial court should give the defendant a reasonable opportunity to familiarize himself with the evidence. If the defendant thereafter believes he may be prejudiced by admission of the evidence because of his lack of opportunity to prepare to meet it, he must request a continuance. Should the defendant fail to request a continuance, he has waived the issue. If he indeed requests a continuance, the state may opt to proceed without the undisclosed evidence, else the trial court must grant the continuance. Failure to follow the Box guidelines is prejudicial error, requiring reversal and remand.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the evidence which showed that Snelson bought and used cocaine after he had sold the stolen guns did not have the tendency to make any fact that was of consequence to the determination of whether Snelson killed Stephen Goode more probable or less probable than it would without the introduction of such evidence.... It is certainly separable from the main offense and cannot be made a part of whatever is referred to as the "res gestae" of the entire transaction. The evidence was clearly inflammatory and offered for the sole purpose of improperly influencing the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“because of the close connection of a specific monetary objective and because of the overwhelming evidence of guilt, we conclude that the error in admitting ... evidence [showing that the defendant purchased crack cocaine after robbing and killing Fulton] if any, is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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