522 So. 2d 756 - Byrd v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]here a defendant retains new counsel at the eleventh hour, he is not entitled to a continuance merely because new counsel was unprepared.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 245 So. 3d 457 - Rickey Portis v. State of Mississippi · 963 So. 2d 49 - Easterling v. State

2. “[t]he jury is the sole judge of the weight and credibility of the evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burrell v. State · 722 So. 2d 666 - Simmons v. State

3. “A convicted defendant's claims that counsel's assistance was so defective as to require reversal of a conviction or death sentence has two components. First, the defendant must show that counsel's performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the `counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, the trial whose result is reliable. Unless a defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said the conviction or death sentence resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yarbrough v. State