Ex Parte Riley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The right of [the criminal defendant] to file a petition for discretionary review is part of the complete appellate process, and this right exists regardless of the probability of success of the appeal and regardless of whose fault it was that [the petitioner] was deprived of the opportunity to file a petition for discretionary review, so long as it was not the fault of the petitioner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 998 So. 2d 494 - Sims v. State

2. “It is the responsibility of counsel appointed on appeal to see the appeal of right through to the end.... Normally, when an appellant is not informed of the decision of the court of appeals by his attorney in time for him to file a petition for discretionary review, it will be ineffective assistance of counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 998 So. 2d 494 - Sims v. State

3. “[A] defendant does have a right to file a pro se petition [for discretionary review], and failure of his counsel to so advise him of this right may result in a finding that his counsel ineffectively represented him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 998 So. 2d 494 - Sims v. State