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← 354 SO2D 263 - McAdory v. State

McAdory v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
October 2014
most recently cited

7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2014

7 state decisions

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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 335 So. 2d 885 - Ponder v. State · Justice v. State · 304 So. 2d 656 - Ainsworth v. State · 291 So. 2d 182 - Boone v. State · Mitchell Watson v. Kenlick Coal Company, Inc.

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

  1. “We do not agree with appellant's assignment of error that the sentence of the lower court was manifestly excessive and constituted unusual and excessive punishment in violation of both the United States and the Mississippi Constitutions. Under the provisions of Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-3-79 (Supp. 1977), the jury could have imposed a life sentence. In the event the jury failed to impose sentence, as was done in this case, the lower court had the discretion under the statute to impose a life sentence. ..... Therefore, we conclude that the sentence of 90 years imposed by the lower court was within the statutory limitation and from the record in this case, the Court cannot say that this sentence was cruel, unusual or excessive punishment. The cause is therefore affirmed. (Emphasis supplied). ( 354 So.2d at 266 ).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Stewart 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.