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421 So. 2d 476 - Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
May 2017
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Johnson v. Mississippi (1988), 533 So. 2d 1078 - Nixon v. State (1987)

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions

1701982199020002010decided

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 Boykin v. Alabama · Gideon v. Wainwright · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Pointer v. Texas

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

  1. “pled guilty. In response to Phillips' argument, this Court held that the trial judge is not required to go beyond the face of the prior convictions sought to be used in establishing a defendant's status as an habitual offender.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Sones v. Hargett · Moore v. State
  2. “[f]acts asserted to exist must and ought to be definitely proved and placed before us by a record, certified by law; otherwise, we cannot know them.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re Hampton · Taylor v. State
  3. “[T]he proper challenge to such a defective conviction lies in a separate action brought expressly for that purpose.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 612 So. 2d 342 - Culberson v. State · 511 So. 2d 1333 - Johnson 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.