Lenoir v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2016
21 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 Clark v. State · Sauer v. State · Brady v. State · Horton v. State · Williams 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a general rule that where a statute denounces as an offense two or more distinctive acts, things, or transactions enumerated therein in the disjunctive, the whole may be charged conjunctively and the defendant found guilty of either one. Section 1798, Vol. 4, Wharton's Criminal Law and Procedure; 27 Am. Jur., Indictment and Information, Sec. 104. This Court seems to have followed this general rule in cases involving other statutes. Cf. State v. Sam, 154 Miss. 14 , 122 So. 101 ; Sauer v. State, 166 Miss. 507 , 144 So. 225 ; Turner v. State, 177 Miss. 272 , 171 So. 21 ; Brady v. State, 128 Miss. 575 , 91 So. 277 ; State v. Clark, 97 Miss. 806 , 52 So. 691 ; Coleman v. State, 94 Miss. 860 , 48 So. 181 , and West v. State, Miss., 49 So.2d 271 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Byrd v. State · Wolf v. State““Any parent who shall desert or wilfully neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her child or children under the age of 16 years, leaving such child or children in destitute or necessitious circumstances, shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lambert v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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