301 So. 2d 853 - Applegate v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2016
11 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) Except as authorized by this article, it is unlawful for any person to sell, barter or transfer a controlled or counterfeit substance for money or for other consideration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) Any person who has not reached his twenty-first (21st) birthday, who is convicted of a first offense under subsections (d) or (e) of section 41-29-139, and who is sentenced to a period of confinement shall be confined at the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield, Mississippi, or at the East Mississippi State Hospital at Meridian, Mississippi, for the term of such sentence. Those persons so confined at said institutions shall be required to abide by all reasonable rules and regulations promulgated by the director and staff of said institutions. Any persons so confined who shall refuse to abide by said rules or who attempt an escape or who shall escape, shall be transferred to the state penitentiary or to a county jail, where appropriate, to serve the remainder of the term of imprisonment; this provision shall not preclude prosecution and conviction for escape from said institutions. (Approved May 19, 1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(g) It is the intent and purpose of the legislature to promote the rehabilitation of persons convicted of offenses under the Uniform Controlled Substances Law by providing for incarceration of such persons in facilities separate from the state penitentiary and the several county jails or county farms. (Emphasis added). ( Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-150 (g), (Supp. 1973)). ( 301 So.2d at 855 ).”
1 later decision 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.