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942 So. 2d 772 - Spears v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
January 2017
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 525 So. 2d 746 - UHS-Qualicare, Inc. v. GULF COAST COM. HOSP., INC. · 558 So. 2d 869 - Tucker v. Hinds County · 671 So. 2d 647 - Peterson v. State · Rhymes v. State · 206 So. 2d 200 - Bucklew 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Failure to state the correct date shall not render the indictment insufficient[.]”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[R]ule 7.06 of the Mississippi Uniform Rules of Circuit and County Court Practice provides what is required to be provided in an indictment.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “That John Allen Berry and Lemuel W. Webb, III, late of the county and State aforesaid, on or about the 22nd day of February, in the year of our Lord 2005, in the County and State aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, corruptly agree, conspire and confederate, each with the other and divers others to the Grand Jury unknown, to commit a crime, to-wit: Possession of Precursors, in direct violation of Section 97-1-1(a), Mississippi Code 1972 annotated, as amended, contrary to the form of the statute in such cases provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi.”
    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.