989 So. 2d 320 - Chamberlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 59 state decisions

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

1. “Admission of photographs by the trial court is reviewed for abuse of discretion. A decision favoring admissibility will not be disturbed absent a clear abuse of that judicial discretion. The discretion of the trial judge is almost unlimited regardless of the gruesomeness, repetitiveness, and the extenuation of probative value. Some probative value is the only requirement needed in order to support a trial judge’s decision to admit photographs into evidence. So long as a photograph has probative value and its introduction serves a meaningful eviden-tiary purpose, it may still be admissible despite being gruesome, grisly, unpleasant, or even inflammatory. A photograph has a meaningful evidentiary purpose when it: (1) aids in describing the circumstances of the killing; (2) describes the location of the body or cause of death; or (3) supplements or clarifies witness testimony.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chapman v. State · 122 So. 3d 105 - Williams v. State

2. “Hansen v. State , 592 So.2d 114 , 142 (Miss. 1991).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. State of Mississippi · Keller v. State

3. “Alternative school,” according to Newton County Deputy Sheriff Mark Spence, "is a school where students that are having trouble functioning for one reason or another, could be behavioral problems, drug problems, what have you, it’d be a school that they would be sent to.” . Deputy Spence explained that a "school resource officer” is "basically ... a cop in school.” "It’d just be a police officer that would be assigned to a school district!,] and they'd take care of security and other type details,” Spence explained. .On November 23, 2009, or just before that date, teachers approached Doe concerning two stolen telephones. Some pills, Klonopin and Xanax, were found on her at that time. Doe eventually pleaded guilty to stealing the cell phones and to possessing the pills. . "The Miranda warning requires that, before subjecting a person in police custody to interrogation, law enforcement officers must inform the person that he has the right to remain silent, that any statement he makes may be used as evidence against him, and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Goforth v. State