Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 319 So. 2d 223 - Fleming v. State

319 So. 2d 223 - Fleming v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
September 1994
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Cheatham v. State · Wellborn v. State · 291 So. 2d 187 - Moore v. State · 245 So. 2d 605 - Butler v. State · 291 So. 2d 693 - Bryson 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We have condemned this instruction so often that we hope it should be plain to all that the instruction is not proper.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “... the granting of a cautionary instruction as to the testimony of an accomplice is discretionary with the trial judge and is not the subject of error on appeal to this Court. Wellborn v. State, 140 Miss. 640 , 105 So. 769 (1925); Cheatham v. State, 67 Miss. 335 , 7 So. 204 (1890).”
    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.