Friday v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2016
19 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 Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. Scott · McLamb v. State · Lee v. State · 443 So. 2d 869 - Stinson v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In holding that even though Miss.Code Ann. § 99-19-81 requires the maximum sentence authorized by Miss.Code Ann. § 97-3-65, but a circuit judge cannot impose the life sentence, here is what we do: we require the circuit judge to impose the maximum sentence he could impose under § 97-3-65 when the jury does not prescribe the punishment. [[Image here]] I do not see how Miss.Code Ann. § 99-19-81 can ever be enforced under our present holding when there has been a dual conviction of a statute [sic] such as Miss.Code Ann. § 97-3-65 and as a habitual offender under Miss.Code Ann. § 99-19-81. I believe Miss.Code Ann. § 99-19-81 was enacted to give certainty in sentencing. The present opinion in [sic] these unusual statutes[,] such as Miss.Code Ann. § 97 — 3—65[,] to a degree weakens [sic] Miss.Code Ann. § 99-19-81.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Every person convicted in this state of a felony who shall have been convicted twice previously of any felony or federal crime upon charges separately brought and arising out of separate incidents at different times and who shall have been sentenced to separate terms of one (1) year or more in any state and/or federal penal institution, whether in this state or elsewhere, shall be sentenced to the maximum term of imprisonment prescribed for such felony, and such sentence shall not be reduced or suspended nor shall such person be eligible for parole or probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person who shall have forcible sexual intercourse with any person . . ., upon conviction, shall be imprisoned for life in the State Penitentiary if the jury by its verdict so prescribes; and in cases where the jury fails to fix the penalty at life imprisonment, the court shall fix the penalty at imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for any term as the court, in its discretion, may determine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burton 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.