Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2001
10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · King v. State · Smith v. State · Dozier v. State · Burton 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We further conclude that the testimony relating to the death of Jimmy Stacker was admissible as part of the res gestae upon the trial of the appellant for manslaughter growing out of the death of Gloria Jean. This embodies the one clearcut exception to the rule, that the state is not allowed to introduce proof of any other crime in a trial of a defendant. This exception makes such evidence admissible where it forms part of the res gestae. Burton v. State, supra [ 226 Miss. 31 , 79 So.2d 242 ]; Whittington v. State, 160 Miss. 705 , 135 So. 190 (1931); Keel v. State, 133 Miss. 160 , 97 So. 521 ; Teat v. State, 53 Miss. 439 , 24 Am.Rep. 708 (1876). In the Teat case, supra, the Court stated: `Thus, if in the same incounter I kill two men, with an interval of one minute or less between the two mortal strokes, the State may well prove the killing of the second man, as being a part of the res gestae, upon the trial for the murder of the first. * * *' 53 Miss. at 455 , 24 Am.Rep. at 713. ( 226 So.2d at 381 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grinnell v. State“The law does not require an autopsy or medical evidence to establish death. These facts are ordinarily proved by witnesses who saw the deceased after his death and who testified that the deceased was dead. The criminal agency or cause of death is usually shown by witnesses who saw the homicide, or by circumstances sufficient to establish the crime to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. State“We hold in the present case ... that the death of the two children are so closely related and connected as to make it practically impossible in developing the facts to exclude any discussion as to the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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