Cannon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2018
2 federal appellate · 16 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 BOLIN v. State · Ivey v. State · Boutwell v. State · MacKie v. State · Crockerham 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Norman Cannon was convicted of rape in the Circuit Court of Forrest County. The jury’s verdict fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for life, and he was so sentenced. [[Image here]] The record discloses that appellant was vigorously and ably defended by his counsel and that his rights were protected at every stage of the proceedings. The case was fairly and impartially tried and the jury’s verdict is supported by the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cannon v. State“The meaning of these words is not obscure and it must be assumed that the members of the jury were ... of ordinary intelligence and capable of understanding their meaning.”
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.