497 So. 2d 1089 - Weaver v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991), 860 So. 2d 704 - Howell v. State (2003)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 381 So. 2d 983 - Jones v. State · 380 So. 2d 1276 - Gathright v. State · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild 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.
“Any person who wilfully and maliciously sets fire to or burns or causes to be burned or who aids, counsels or procures the burning of any dwelling house, whether occupied, unoccupied or vacant, or any kitchen, shop, barn, stable or other outhouse that is parcel thereof, or belonging to or adjoining thereto, whether the property of himself or of another, shall be guilty of arson in the first degree, and upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than twenty years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n such cases where the prejudicial effect of what the jury heard was such that no amount of subsequent admonition from the trial judge would be likely to eradicate from the jury's mind the prejudicial effect, we reverse, although such occasions are rare.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“That [§ 97-17-11] might also have covered and made unlawful the conduct of Weaver does not preclude his being charged under [§ 97-17-5].”
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.