Westmoreland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 445 So. 2d 798 - Williams v. State (1984), 360 So. 2d 1206 - Bell v. State (1978)
31 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 Love v. State · State v. Knowlton · Hampton v. State · White v. State · Kelly 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The requirements of specificity with respect to allegation of ownership demand neither a deraignment of title nor a statement in `direct terms' showing perfect title where ownership of the money or property obtained reasonably appears from the whole indictment and there is nothing in the indictment to support or suggest any other reasonable conclusion." 246 So.2d at 489-90 .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“During the month of September, 1992, said Defendant, Mitchell Price, Sr., being then and there a male person above the age of eighteen (18) years, to-wit: twenty-eight (28) years of age, whose date of birth of May 14, 1964 , did carnally and unlawfully know by having sexual intercourse with [the victim], a female child who was under the age of fourteen (14) years, to-wit: ten (10) years of age at the time, whose date of birth is September 26, 1981, by the insertion of his penis into the vagina of [the victim], contrary to and in violation of Section 97-3-65(1) of the Mississippi Code of 1972, as amended; against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi, and”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“was mere surplusage in the indictment and the appellant could not have been prejudiced by this erroneous reference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.