Minor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1984
6 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 Crowell v. State · Calhoun v. State · Davis v. State · Knight v. Whitehead
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so short as to render it morally or reasonably certain that there could have been no intermediate change of possession.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“under Mississippi law, so as to give rise to a presumption of guilt on the part of the accused. This Court has held that the test of recency is whether the interval between the time of the theft and the known possession by the accused was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“beyond a reasonable doubt and to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis than that of guilty.”
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.