State v. Peoples’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2014
9 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 White v. United States · 419 So. 2d 165 - Callahan v. State · 445 So. 2d 1364 - Henderson v. State · Harden v. State · West 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under [ Miss. Code Ann. § 97-1-3 ], an accessory to any felony before the fact is a principal and may be convicted as a principal in an indictment charging him or her as principal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]either a motion to quash nor any other pretrial pleading can be employed to test the sufficiency of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]very person who shall be an accessory to any felony, before the fact, shall be deemed and considered a principal, and shall be indicted and punished as such; and this whether the principal have been previously convicted or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Randall 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.