47 So. 3d 203 - Chapman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) His conviction and/or sentence were imposed in violation of the United States Constitution; (2) His due-process rights were violated; (3) The circuit court erred in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing; (4) His guilty plea to the crime of robbery was not voluntary and intelligent; (5) He received ineffective assistance of counsel; (6) His "custody is illegal;” (7) His indictments for robbery and rape were defective; (8) The jury was not drawn from a fair cross-section of the community; (9) The prosecution failed to disclose material exculpatory evidence; (10) He is innocent of the crime of rape; (11) The State failed to preserve his trial transcript and other evidence that would exonerate him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 So. 3d 1170 - Richard Chapman v. State of Mississippi

2. “[t]he State has 'a duty to preserve evidence which might be expected to play a significant role in the suspect's defense.' " Id. at (¶ 22) (internal quotation mark omitted). However, to establish a violation of this duty, the defendant must show, among other things, that the State "acted in bad faith in failing to preserve the potentially exculpatory evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sanford Mason v. State of Mississippi