571 So. 2d 244 - Allman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 665 So. 2d 852 - Eakes v. State (1995), Gray v. State (1998)
48 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 Weatherford v. Bursey · Irving III v. Mississippi · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not our function to determine whose testimony to believe. Thomas v. State , 495 So.2d 481 (Miss. 1986); Anderson v. State , 461 So.2d 716 (Miss. 1984); and Groseclose v. State , 440 So.2d 297 (Miss. 1983). We will not disturb a jury's finding on conflicting testimony where there is substantial evidence to support the verdict. Billiot v. State , 454 So.2d 445 (Miss. 1984); Thomas v. State , 495 So.2d 481 (Miss. 1986). Furthermore the evidence is considered by this Court in the light most favorable to the verdict. Fisher v. State , 481 So.2d 203 (Miss. 1985), and Inman v. State , 515 So.2d 1150 (Miss. 1987) (quoting Pinson v. State , 518 So.2d 1220 , 1224 (Miss. 1988)). The jury's verdict in this case is given great deference. The purpose of our justice system in allowing a minor to testify in a case such as the one at hand is to hear what she has to say and let the jury weigh her testimony, together with all the other witnesses. We hold the jury's verdict was not against the overwhelming weight of the evidence and this assignment of error is without merit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court instructs the Jury that if you believe from all of the evidence presented in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant, Ernest Lee Allman, a male person above the age of eighteen (18) years, did on or about the 1st day of February, 1986, in George County, Mississippi, unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously rape, ravish and carnally know one C.A. [sic], a female person under the age of fourteen (14) years, then in that event, it is your sworn duty to find the defendant guilty of Capital Rape, Count 1.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Two (2) or more offenses which are triable in the same court may be charged in the same indictment with a separate count for each offense if: (a) the offenses are based on the same act or transaction; or (b) the offenses are based on two (2) or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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