Freelon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 521 So. 2d 914 - Reynolds v. State · 483 So. 2d 343 - Odom v. State · West. Line Consol. SD v. Greenville Mun. SD · 410 So. 2d 378 - Tribou v. Gunn · 456 So. 2d 1042 - Williams 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I write because I fear the opinion may be read by some as deciding a proposition which has been neither raised nor litigated and is not necessary to the decision today. In my view, the enforceability of the three-year statute of limitations in the Mississippi Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-5 (2) (Supp. 1990), is highly problematical. It likely constitutes a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in violation of Miss. Const. Art. 3, § 21 (1890). The question was before us in Reynolds v. State, 521 So.2d 914, 915 (Miss. 1988), but we did not decide it because the complaining prisoner lacked standing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Cole 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.