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913 So. 2d 1053 - Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2009
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · 691 So. 2d 948 - Herring v. State · 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State · Evans v. State · Johnson 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he Mississippi Supreme Court has held that `[t]he interrogator may frame his question on any theory which can reasonably be deduced from the evidence and select as a predicate therefor such facts as the evidence proves or reasonably tends to establish or justify.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “(1) was based upon his medical evaluation of [the child], (2) was the product of reliable principles and methods of medicine, and (3) those principles and methods were reliably applied to the facts of this case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “reasonable doubt defines itself; it therefore needs no definition by the court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.