604 So. 2d 748 - Meeks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State (1995), 42 So. 3d 503 - Rowland v. State (2010)
42 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter · Whalen v. United States
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) The killing of a human being without the authority of law by any means or in any manner shall be capital murder in the following cases: [[Image here]] (e) When done with or without any design to effect death, by any person engaged in the commission of the crime of rape, burglary, kidnapping, arson, robbery, sexual battery, unnatural intercourse with any child under the age of twelve (12), or nonconsen-sual unnatural intercourse with mankind, or in any attempt to commit such felonies....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Blue v. State · Nelson v. State“[Blockburger] charges that we compare statutory offenses, as indicted, and see whether each requires proof of a fact which the other does not.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mississippi allows `wide-open cross-examination of any matters affecting the credibility of the witness.'”
4 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.