740 So. 2d 873 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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44 state decisions

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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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Mississippi Supreme Court has consistently held that: no assignment of error based on the giving of an instruction to the jury will be considered on appeal unless specific objection was made to the instruction in the trial court stating the particular ground or grounds for such objection .... a party may not argue that an instruction was erroneous for a reason other than the reason assigned on objection to the instruction at trial. Walker v. State, 740 So.2d 873 (Miss.1999) (citations omitted). When a party objects to a particular jury instruction, he should “state a contemporaneous objection in specific terms so that the trial court has an opportunity to correct any mistake.” Young v. Robinson, 538 So.2d 781, 783 (Miss.1989) (citations omitted).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. inters v. State · 854 So. 2d 497 - Hogan v. State

2. “The asking of questions without a factual basis leaves an impression in the mind of jurors that the prosecutor actually had such facts in hand and that the insinuations through questioning contained some truth. This leaves false and inadmissible ideas in the minds of jurors that cannot be adequately rebutted by the testimony of witnesses or instructions from the court.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 773 So. 2d 309 - Flowers v. State · 842 So. 2d 531 - Flowers v. State

3. “(1) that he is a member of cognizable racial group; (2) that the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges to remove from the venire members of the defendant's race; (3) and the facts and circumstances raised an inference that the prosecutor used his peremptory challenges for the purpose of striking minorities.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Puckett v. State · 800 So. 2d 472 - Snow v. State