724 So. 2d 942 - Ruffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2014
5 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 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State · 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State · Cole v. State · 535 So. 2d 1371 - Vickery v. State · 455 So. 2d 713 - Cannaday 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unquestionably, such a witness is not equally available to the prosecution, and therefore, the prosecution had every right to comment on [Brown's] failure to call him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, cross-examination is not without its limits. `M.R.E. 611(b) allows wide-open cross-examination so long as the matter probed is relevant.' Zoerner v. State, 725 So.2d 811 , 96-KA-00318-SCT (P 3) (Miss.1998) (citations omitted). M.R.E. 401 defines what is relevant evidence: `Relevant Evidence' means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally, it is improper to comment on the failure of either party to call a witness equally accessible to both parties. Ross v. State, 603 So.2d 857, 864 (Miss.1992). However, when a defendant fails to call a witness more available to him and in a closer relationship to him, the prosecution is allowed to comment on the defendant's failure to call the witness. Id.”
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.