729 So. 2d 197 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2016
24 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 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 705 So. 2d 307 - Holland v. State · 493 So. 2d 365 - Harveston v. State · 703 So. 2d 269 - Berry v. State · 484 So. 2d 1002 - Gates 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Failure to raise a contemporaneous objection to the judge's instruction procedurally bars [the defendant] from arguing this issue on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The State seized on the statements of [the co-defendant’s] counsel, and hammered Walker, testifying on his own behalf, with this apparent tacit admission of guilt by his co-defendant, and despite vociferous objection from Walker’s attorney, the trial court allowed the prosecutor to treat [the co-defendant’s] attorney’s opening statement as if it were direct testimony by [the co-defendant] against Walker[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well established in Mississippi that trial judges have broad discretion in granting a continuance.”
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.