Hobson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 913 So. 2d 198 - Walker v. State (2005), 792 So. 2d 192 - Mitchell v. State (2001)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Culberson v. Mississippi · Heidel v. State · 705 So. 2d 307 - Holland v. State · 604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State · Carr 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]esser-included offense instructions should be given if there is an evidentiary basis in the record that would permit a jury rationally to find the defendant guilty of the lesser offense and to acquit him of the greater offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Heat-of-passion manslaughter requires “a state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicide from the grade of murder to that of manslaughter.” Hobson v. State, 730 So.2d 20, 26-27 [(¶ 22)] (Miss.1998) (quoting Tait v. State, 669 So.2d 85, 89 (Miss.1996)). “Passion or anger suddenly aroused at the time by some immediate and reasonable provocation, by words or acts of one at the time. The term includes an emotional state of mind characterized by anger, rage, hatred, furious resentment or terror.” Id. at 27 [(¶ 22)]. “The passion felt by the person committing the act ‘should be superinduced by some insult, provocation, or injury, which would naturally and instantly produce, in the minds of ordinarily constituted men, the highest degree of exasperation.’ ” Graham v. State, 582 So.2d 1014, 1018 (Miss.1991) (quoting Barnett v. State, 568 So.2d 1877 , 1379 (Miss.1990)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Hobson also complains about the failure of police to search Hobson’s house for a gun, the State’s failure to call Perry McAbee as a witness, and the lack of results from blood analysis of the victim’s blood samples, fingerprint analysis from the victim’s car, and the gunshot residue test taken from McAbee. The State was not required to present any of this evidence at trial. Hobson does not assert any discovery violations in this case, and he could have introduced any of the above evidence if he found it to be exculpatory. Direct evidence is not necessary to support a conviction, but in this case the State did present direct evidence in the form of Stone’s testimony. Stone’s eyewitness account was sufficient to support a prima facie case of murder. We will not reverse based upon the lack of physical evidence presented at Hobson’s trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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