Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 state decisions

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

1. “"It has been for some time the established rule in this state that where the defendant or the defendant's witnesses are the only eyewitnesses to the homicide, their version, if reasonable, must be accepted as true, unless substantially contradicted in material particulars by a credible witness or witnesses for the state, or by the physical facts or by the facts of common knowledge. (Emphasis added) 165 Miss. at 209 , 147 So. at 482.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 So. 2d 878 - Carroll v. State · 271 So. 2d 407 - Cummings v. State

2. ““It is a general rule, expressly affirmed by statute in some jurisdictions, that a person is justified in taking life in defense of his habitation where it is actually or apparently necessary to do so in order to repel another person who attempts to enter in a forcible or violent manner for the apparent purpose of committing a felony therein upon either person or property or of inflicting great bodily harm or of assaulting, or offering' personal violence to a person dwelling or being therein. See, also, 40 C.J.S. Homicide, § 109.” 232 Miss. at 724 , 100 So. 2d at 361 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 271 So. 2d 407 - Cummings v. State