913 So. 2d 198 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

87 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Every person who shall feloniously take or attempt to take from the person or from the presence the personal property of another and against his will by violence to his person or by putting such person in fear of immediate injury to his person by the exhibition of a deadly weapon shall be guilty of robbery....”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Goff v. State · Veazy v. State

2. “This Court does not single out any instruction or take instructions out of context; rather, the instructions are to be read together as a whole. Thomas v. State, 818 So.2d 335, 349 (Miss.2002). A defendant is entitled to have jury instructions which present his theory of the case. Id. This entitlement is limited, however, in that the court is allowed to refuse an instruction which incorrectly states the law, is covered fairly elsewhere in the instructions, or is without foundation in the evidence. Id.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dickerson v. State · 984 So. 2d 996 - Ousley v. State

3. “A traffic stop is constitutional no matter the officer's subjective intent, so long as the officer had probable cause to believe that a traffic violation occurred. [citations omitted] This is an objective test based on the facts known to the officer at the time of the stop, not on the motivations of the officer in making the stop. On the other hand, if it is clear that what the police observed did not constitute a violation of the cited traffic law, there is no "objective basis" for the stop, and the stop is illegal. Id. at 225-26 (Miss.2005) (quoting United States v. Escalante, 239 F.3d 678, 680-81 (5th Cir.2001)).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 986 So. 2d 928 - Moore v. State · 986 So. 2d 959 - Moore v. State