485 So. 2d 1055 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2016
23 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 Glasser v. United States · United States v. Peoni · Hamilton v. United States · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · Roberts v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Conspiracy is a combination of two or more persons to accomplish an unlawful purpose or to accomplish a lawful purpose unlawfully, the persons agreeing in order to form the conspiracy." Miss. Code Ann. § 97-1-1 (1972). Conspiracy is a complete offense in itself, distinct from the commission of the crime contemplated by the conspiracy and does not become merged with that crime. (emphasis added) Norman v. State, 381 So.2d 1024, 1028 (Miss. 1980), Harrigill v. State, 381 So.2d 619, 621 (Miss. 1980), Martin v. State, 197 Miss. 96 , 19 So.2d 488 (1944), Moore v. State, 290 So.2d 603 (Miss. 1974), U.S. v. York, 578 F.2d 1036 (5th Cir.1978), cert. den. 439 U.S. 1005 , 99 S.Ct. 619 , 58 L.Ed.2d 682 (1979), U.S. v. Cheers, 439 F.2d 1097 (5th Cir.1971). The offense is complete without showing an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. (citations omitted).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · Berry v. State“There must exist some evidence that a defendant has associated himself with the venture in some fashion, participated in it as something that he wished to bring about, or sought by his action to make it succeed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is settled that the existence of a conspiracy, and a defendant's membership in it, may be proved entirely by circumstantial evidence... .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Peoples v. State · Johnson 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.