141 So. 2d 257 - Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2009
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 104 So. 2d 352 - Larry v. State · 95 So. 2d 594 - Russ v. State · Pinder v. State · McCutchen v. State · Hall 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who kills a person through mistaken identity or accident, with a premeditated design to kill another, is guilty of murder in the first-degree... . The law transfers the felonious intent in such a case to the actual object of his assault... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“one who kills a person through mistaken identity or accident, with a premeditated design to kill another is guilty of murder in the first degree.... The law transfers the felonious intent in such a case to the actual object of his assault, and the homicide so committed is murder in the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lynch v. State
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.