441 So. 2d 606 - Perri v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2014
1 federal appellate · 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Wingo v. Wedding · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Yazoo County Industrial Development Corp. Et Al. v. Suthoff Et Al. · In re Vendo Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant may be legally answerable for his actions and legally sane, and even though he may be capable of assisting his counsel at trial, he may still deserve some mitigation of sentence because of his mental state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blanco v. Singletary“In the sentencing proceeding, testimony about the details of a prior violent felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person is properly admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elledge 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.