Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Stringer v. State (1986), 362 So. 2d 1236 - Voyles v. State (1978)
70 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 Floyd v. State · Hawkins v. State · Matthews v. State · Woodward v. State · City of Jackson v. Gordon
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... criminal intent of a defendant, dwelling in his mind, invisible to the outward sight, can never be proven by direct testimony of a third person, (except when verbally expressed or admitted), and it need not be, because a person is presumed to intend that which he does, or which is the natural and necessary consequence of his act. [Citations omitted] Moreover, the court and the jury are not bound by the evidence of the accused as to what his intention was in the doing of a particular act. [Citations omitted] [emphasis supplied].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Under the common law, proof of criminal intent is a necessary element in the prosecution of every criminal case, (except those offenses which are merely malum prohibitum)'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence of other crimes is admissible to prove identity of the defendant, scienter or guilty or criminal knowledge, criminal intent or purpose, motive, a plan or system of criminal action where a continuing offense is charged, or where other crimes form a part of the res gestae.”
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.