636 So. 2d 1220 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Taylor v. State (1996), 943 So. 2d 20 - Hannah v. State (2006)
46 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 · Boykin v. Alabama · Henderson v. Morgan · Sellers v. Sanders · Myers 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is essential that an accused have knowledge of the critical elements of the charge against him, that he fully understand the charge, how it involves him, the effects of a guilty plea to the charge, and what might happen to him in the sentencing phase as a result of having entered the plea of guilty.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In contrast, Smith's current contentions and credibility are certainly suspect. When we compare his previous sworn testimony during his guilty plea with his current affidavit, the latter is practically rendered a `sham,' thus allowing the summary dismissal of the petition to stand."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Dawkins v. State“Automatic invalidation of a guilty plea is not the rule in Mississippi. In Gaskin v. State, 618 So.2d 103, 108 (Miss.1993), this Court held that the trial court’s failure to correctly advise the defendant of the applicable minimum and maximum sentences was harmless error where it is shown that the defendant was correctly informed by another source. That very same issue was also presented and expanded as the disposi-tive issue in Sykes v. State, 624 So.2d 500 (Miss.1993). In Sykes , the accused was sentenced to a term of imprisonment and no fine was imposed. However, the penalty statute for the crime mandated a fine of at least $1,000, but not more than $1,000,000, and made imprisonment up to 30 years optional. Sykes was not informed of the minimum fine specified by the Mississippi Code. He subsequently claimed that the failure to notify him of the mandatory minimum fine rendered his guilty plea involuntary. The Sykes Court held that where it can be said “beyond a reasonable doubt that the failure to advise an accused of a minimum played no role in the decision of the accused to plead, such failure is not fatal to the sentence.” The Court reasoned that the situation in Sykes warranted a natural extension of the “harmless error rule ” which had been applied on past occasions to omissions in advice rendered to pleading defendants where no actual harm was suffered by the defendant. The test announced in Sykes necessitates a “harmless error” analysis.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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