Crenshaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] motion court has authority to consider a motion to reopen Rule 29.15 proceedings when it is alleged that a movant has been abandoned by his counsel.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mark D. Vogl v. State of Missouri · Middleton v. State

2. “The precise circumstances, in which a motion court may find abandonment, are not fixed, but in general abandonment is available when (1) post-conviction counsel takes no action on a movant’s behalf with respect to filing an amended motion and as such the record shows that the movant is deprived of a meaningful review of his claims; or (2) when post-conviction counsel is aware of the need to file an amended post-conviction relief motion and fails to do so in a timely manner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riley v. State

3. “If a court finds that a movant has been abandoned, then the proper remedy is to put the movant in the place where the movant would have been if the abandonment had not occurred.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brown v. State