Leamon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An application for relief filed pursuant to this chapter must be filed within one year after the entry of judgment of conviction or within one year after the sending of the remittitur to the lower court from an appeal or the filing of the final decision upon an appeal, whichever is later.”

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

2. “When considering the State's motion for summary dismissal, where no evidentiary hearing has been held, the PCR judge must assume facts presented by the applicant are true and view those facts in the light most favorable to the applicant.”

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

3. “Similarly, when reviewing the propriety of a dismissal, this Court must view the facts in the same fashion.”

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