Beckham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2013
10 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 Grillis v. State · 274 So. 2d 124 - Aikerson v. State · 497 So. 2d 1089 - Weaver v. State · 456 So. 2d 209 - Cumbest 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Yet if the indictment is ambiguous, the accused can only be punished under the statute with the lesser penalty. Weaver v. State, 497 So.2d 1089, 1092 (Miss.1986). The indictment here is silent as to the applicable statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clubb 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.