Finnie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Perez v. Wainwright (1981), Surridge v. State (1982)
32 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 Harkness v. State · Goodwin 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . The Supreme Court may act upon and decide a case in which the notice of appeal was not given or the transcript of the trial record was not filed in the time prescribed [30 days], when a good reason for the omission is shown by affidavit. However, no motion for belated appeal shall be entertained by the Supreme Court unless application has been made, either to the Supreme Court or the trial court, within eighteen [18] months of the date of commitment ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ellis v. State · Gray 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.