539 So. 2d 1375 - McClendon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

cited by 76 later decisions

states following

December 2018

most recently cited

76 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Brown v. State (2004), 560 So. 2d 148 - Schmitt v. State (1990)

76 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 515 So. 2d 1183 - Mullins v. Ratcliff · 467 So. 2d 657 - Bell v. City of Bay St. Louis · 533 So. 2d 418 - Woodward v. State · Neal v. State · 521 So. 2d 914 - Reynolds 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“No relief shall be granted under this chapter unless the prisoner proves by a preponderance of the evidence that he is entitled to such.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 687 So. 2d 1180 - Neal v. State · 650 So. 2d 1267 - Holt v. State
“It has been suggested that the Mississippi Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act arguably represents an invasion of this Court's rule making power. See Hall v. State, 539 So.2d 1338 (Miss. 1989); ... The provisions of the act relevant to today's proceeding enjoy enforceability, not because of any legal validity conferred upon them by the legislature but because we have adopted them in prior proceedings before this Court. (Emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. McCarty v. State · 584 So. 2d 769 - Corley v. State
“On the other hand, where ... the trial judge has applied an erroneous legal standard, we should not hesitate to reverse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 910 So. 2d 1032 - Quitman County v. State · 781 So. 2d 109 - Meeks 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.