881 So. 2d 820 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 42 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Only in those cases where the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice will this Court disturb it on appeal.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State · 958 So. 2d 294 - Watts v. State

2. “[t]he constitutional requirements for an investigative stop and detention are less stringent than those for an arrest. An investigative stop of a suspect may be made so long as an officer has "a reasonable suspicion grounded in specific and articulable facts, that a person he encounters was involved in or is wanted in connection with a felony." Floyd v. City of Crystal Springs, 749 So.2d 110, 114 (Miss.1999). Put another way, the investigative stop exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement allows a police officer to conduct a brief investigative stop if the officer had a reasonable suspicion, based upon specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, result in the conclusion that criminal behavior has occurred or is imminent. Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 19 , 88 S.Ct. 1868, 1878-79 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889, 904-05 (1968).”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vanessa Lynn Page v. State of Mississippi · Eaddy v. State

3. “In determining whether a jury verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, we must accept as true the evidence which supports the verdict and will reverse only when convinced that the circuit court has abused its discretion in failing to grant a new trial.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 932 So. 2d 860 - Walters v. State · 914 So. 2d 814 - Ross v. State