Rowland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Failure by a prisoner to raise objections, defenses, claims, questions, issues or errors either in fact or law which were capable of determination at trial and/or on direct appeal, regardless of whether such are based on the laws and the Constitution of the state of Mississippi or of the United States, shall constitute a waiver thereof and shall be procedurally barred, but the court may upon a showing of cause and actual prejudice grant relief from the waiver.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 42 So. 3d 503 - Rowland v. State

2. “a valid guilty plea operates as a waiver of all non-jurisdictional rights or defects which include rights secured by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 42 So. 3d 503 - Rowland v. State

3. “[T]his Court declines to exercise whatever discretionary authority it may have to consider otherwise time-barred issues pursuant to the "fundamental rights”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 42 So. 3d 503 - Rowland v. State