536 So. 2d 13 - Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2017
17 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 Strickland v. Washington · Murray v. Maggio · 463 So. 2d 1064 - Williams v. State · 492 So. 2d 1281 - Watts v. State · 456 So. 2d 729 - Christian 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Powell also claims that there was no proof as to the amount of medical expenses. After Troy Powell was found guilty a separate proceeding was held on November 24, 1986, to determine sentencing. Judge Pigott during this proceeding sentenced Powell to nine years in the custody of the Department of Corrections and took up the issue of restitution. The judge in determining the amount of restitution stated on the record that the victim had incurred $4,648.00 worth of medical bills from the doctors and hospitals and another bill for $5,000.00 from the University Hospital for a total of $9,648.00. The bills themselves were never introduced into evidence. It was error for the judge to use facts not in evidence to determine the amount of restitution.... 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cummings v. State“The language in Section 99-37-3(3) infers that the defendant must object to the restitution at the time of sentencing.... Troy Powell made no objection to the restitution at the time of sentencing. He waited until he was before this Court to object. Having failed to object at the sentencing phase he will not be allowed to object now. See Watts v. State, 492 So.2d 1281, 1290-91 (Miss. 1986).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a person is convicted of criminal activities which have resulted in pecuniary damages, in addition to any other sentence it may impose, the court may order that the defendant make restitution to the victim;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.