James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2018
14 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 United States v. Peoni · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · United States v. Falcone · 380 So. 2d 1276 - Gathright 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since a conspiracy to commit a crime is different from the crime that is the object of the conspiracy, the first necessarily involves joint action while the other does not. By its very nature conspiracy is a joint or group offense requiring a concert of free will. The union of the minds of at least two persons is a prerequisite to the commission of the offense, or, stated differently, at least two persons must agree for a conspiracy to exist. [ Moore v. State ] 290 So.2d [603] at 604, [Miss. 1974]. See also Griffin v. State, 480 So.2d 1124 , 1126 (Miss. 1985); Norman v. State, 381 So.2d 1024 , 1028 (Miss. 1980).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If two (2) or more persons conspire either: (a) To commit a crime: or [[Image here]] (h) To accomplish any unlawful purpose, or a lawful purpose by any unlawful means: such persons, and each of them, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction may be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or by both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDougle v. State“The killing of a human being without the authority of law by any means or any manner ... when done with or without any design to effect death, by a person engaged in the commission of the crime of felonious abuse and/or battery of a child in violation of subsection (2) of Section 97-5-39, or in any attempt to commit such felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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