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793 So. 2d 591 - Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

48 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State · 574 So. 2d 685 - McQuarter 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “if the trial court has deviated from a legal rule, whether that error is plain, clear or obvious, and whether the error has prejudiced the outcome of the trial.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. McGee v. State · Hayes v. State
  2. “If before or during trial the court, of its own motion or upon motion of an attorney, has reasonable ground to believe that the defendant is incompetent to stand trial, the court shall order the defendant to submit to a mental examination by some competent psychiatrist selected by the court in accordance with § 99-13-11 of the Mississippi Code Annotated of 1972. After the examination the court shall conduct a hearing to determine if the defendant is competent to stand trial. After hearing all the evidence, the court shall weigh the evidence and make a determination of whether the defendant is competent to stand trial. If the court finds that the defendant is competent to stand trial, then the court shall make the finding a matter of record and the case will then proceed to trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Goff v. State
  3. “trial judge is in the best position for determining the prejudicial effect of an objectionable remark by either the prosecutor or a witness.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wheeler v. State

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.