799 So. 2d 70 - Ishee v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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

1. “The function of the jury is to weigh the evidence and determine the facts. When the prosecution wishes to send a message they should employ Western Union. Mississippi jurors are not messenger boys.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 921 So. 2d 292 - Spicer v. State · 986 So. 2d 308 - Brown v. State

2. “An indictment serves to alert the defendant of the charge against him.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 906 So. 2d 16 - Barnes v. State · 908 So. 2d 889 - Allred v. State

3. “An attempt is a direct movement toward the commission of the crime after the preparations have been made; the defendant’s act must be a direct, unequivocal act toward the commission of the intended crime; that his acts must have progressed to the extent of giving him power to commit the offense and nothing but an interruption prevented the commission of the offense; that the defendant’s act must reach far enough toward the accomplishment of his intention to commit the offense to amount to a commencement of the consummation or to be a step in the direct movement toward its commission; and that some appreciable fragment of the crime must be committed so that the crime would be completed if the defendant were not interrupted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 11 So. 3d 123 - Hawkins v. State