Young v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State (1984), 204 W. Va. 58 - State v. Rodoussakis (1998)
33 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 Desist v. United States · 360 So. 2d 1206 - Bell v. State · United States of America Ex Rel. William Davis v. Hon. Daniel McMann Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York,respondent-Appellant · Warn v. State · Hall 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only slight corroboration of an accomplice's testimony is require to sustain a conviction. Feranda v. State, 267 So.2d 305 (Miss.1972). The testimony of Harrison and Dorman was corroborated to some extent by Easterling and Patricia Thrasher. The credibility and reasonableness of the testimony of Harrison and Dorman was for the determination of the jury. Cochran v. State, 278 So.2d 451 (Miss.1973). It is within the province of the jury to accept parts of the testimony of any witness, and the jury may give consideration to all inferences flowing from the testimony. Grooms v. State, 357 So.2d 292 (Miss. 1978).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person criminally involved with others in a crime is an accomplice. The testimony of an accomplice is to be considered and weighed with great care and caution and suspicion. You may give it such weight and credit as you deem it is entitled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he presumption is that the trial judge properly performed his duties ....”
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.