Crockerham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably Shields v. State (1962), 534 So. 2d 168 - Nicolaou v. State (1988)
33 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 Barnes v. State · Weathersby v. State · Clark v. State · Grady v. State · Gregory 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If the facts relied upon to change such presumption are unreasonable and improbable, or if they are contradicted by physical facts and circumstances in evidence, then the jury may find a verdict either of murder or manslaughter, according to the circumstances and facts in evidence. * * *” ( 202 Miss. at 32 , 30 So.2d at 419-420 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.