559 So. 2d 210 - State v. Boatwright’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Daniels v. State (1992), State v. Christian (1997)
31 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 Yazoo County Industrial Development Corp. Et Al. v. Suthoff Et Al. · Missouri v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas · 438 So. 2d 1 - Palmer v. State · 451 So. 2d 844 - State v. Hogan · 513 So. 2d 122 - State v. Fundora
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mandatory minimum sentence imposed upon a defendant upon conviction of a capital felony is the statutorily required penalty for each capital felony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Downs v. State · Haye v. State“(4)(a) Whoever, in the course of one criminal transaction or episode, commits an act or acts which constitute one or more separate criminal offenses, upon conviction and adjudication of guilt, shall be sentenced separately for each criminal offense; and the sentencing judge may order the sentences to be served concurrently or consecutively.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In contrast the three year mandatory minimum sentence for possession of a firearm ... is but an `enhancement' of the penalty prescribed by statute for the underlying offense... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Haye v. State · Daniels 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.