293 So. 2d 430 - Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably 533 So. 2d 418 - Woodward v. State (1988), State v. Rusk (1981)
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 Cone v. Inter County Telephone Telegraph Co. · Evans v. State · Lang v. State · McGee v. Mississippi · 278 So. 2d 451 - Cochran 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 rule is that physical force on the part of the assailant, or physical resistance on the part of the victim, is not necessary if the proof shows beyond a reasonable doubt that the female surrendered because of fear arising out of a reasonable apprehension of great bodily harm.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“As to his request for a peremptory instruction, the rule is that when all the evidence on behalf of the state is taken as true, together with all sound and reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom, if there is enough evidence to support a verdict of conviction, the peremptory instruction should be denied. Cochran v. State, 278 So.2d 451 (Miss. 1973). ( 293 So.2d at 432 ).”
2 later decisions 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.