Mease v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991), 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State (1995)
110 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 Calicoat v. State · 532 So. 2d 1207 - White v. State · 307 So. 2d 557 - Harrison v. State · Wingard v. State · Stritzinger v. Wagner
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was in Calicoat v. State [ 131 Miss. 169 , 95 So. 318 (1923)] that this Court started down this road holding despite vigorous dissents that it was `harmless error' to give a manslaughter instruction to the State where there was proof from which the jury could find the defendant guilty of murder,”
1 later decision 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.