Swinford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2017
24 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 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · McFee v. State · United States v. Gordon · 437 So. 2d 19 - Box v. State · Cole 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]iding and abetting may be manifested by acts, words, signs, motions, or any conduct which unmistakably evinces a design to encourage, incite or approve of the crime, or even by being present, with the intention of giving assistance, if necessary, though such assistance may not be called into requisition.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny person who is present at the commission of a criminal offense and aids, counsels, or encourages another in the commission of that offense is an `aider and abettor' and is equally guilty with the principal offender.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no dispute that George Johnson killed Jamie Medlin. Nor is there any dispute that defendant [Darla Jo] Swin-ford was present at the time of the killing and also arranged for Jamie Med-lin to be at the place where the killing took place. Swinford testified that she suspected trouble when she saw Johnson arrive with a gun. She readily admitted that she did nothing, knowing that Johnson stood armed talking with Medlin for approximately thirty minutes. She neither tried to stop the discussion or leave for help. There is also no dispute that she subsequently traveled with Johnson and Branum to Florida with packed bags. Swinford testified that she only thought that Johnson wanted to talk to Medlin on the day of the murder and that she traveled to Florida with the boys out of fear. However, this testimony does not support the verdict and is in fact refuted by [another witness’s] testimony that Swinford knew of the plan to kill Medlin. There exists ample evidence in support of Swinford’s murder conviction. Swin-ford’s actions met the requirements for aiding and abetting, and therefore her conviction for murder stands affirmed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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