942 So. 2d 247 - Lyons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 2015
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rakas v. Illinois · McClain v. State · McFee v. State · 573 So. 2d 657 - Turner v. State · 835 So. 2d 14 - Hawthorne 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find that when a defendant makes an overt act and a reasonable person would believe that a deadly weapon is present, there is no requirement that a victim must actually see the deadly weapon in order to convict pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section 97-3-79. Therefore, a victim is not required to have “definite knowledge” of a deadly weapon in the sense that the weapon must actually be seen by the victim’s own eyes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trammell v. State“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[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trammell v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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