513 So. 2d 910 - Fairman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2015
20 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 Barnes v. State · Weathersby v. State · Johnson v. State · 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State · 493 So. 2d 365 - Harveston 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t has long been the case law of this state that malice aforethought, premeditated design, and deliberate design all mean the same thing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Windham v. State“§ 97-3-19. Homicide murder defined. ..... (a) When done with deliberate design to effect the death of the person killed, or of any human being; (b) When done in the commission of an act eminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved heart, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual; (c) When done without any design to effect death, by any person engaged in the commission of the crime of rape, burglary, arson, or robbery, or in any attempt to commit such felonies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Windham 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.