Fairley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), 575 So. 2d 16 - MacKbee v. State (1990)
48 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 Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · United States v. Bentvena · 445 So. 2d 798 - Williams v. State · McKee v. Harris · 449 So. 2d 756 - Wiley 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is sufficient evidence to support a verdict of guilty, this Court will not reverse.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. State · Morgan v. State“The court instructs the jury that should you find from the evidence in this case, beyond a reasonable doubt that: 1. On or about August 27, 1999, In Lauderdale County, Mississippi 2. The defendant Jerome J. Tott did wilfully and unlawfully operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and some other substance, including marijuana, 3. After having been convicted of at least two (2) prior DUI offenses within five (5) years of August 27,1999. Then it is your sworn duty to find the defendant Jerome T. Tott guilty of the felony offense of driving under the influence. Should the State fail to prove any one or more of these essential elements beyond a reasonable doubt, then you shall find the defendant Jerome T. Tott guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tott v. State
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.