Goss v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Johnson v. State (2006), 754 So. 2d 1207 - Carter v. State (2000)
26 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 585 So. 2d 757 - Robinson v. State · 585 So. 2d 738 - Moore v. State · 278 So. 2d 778 - Gisch 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the sentence in its totality violates the limits imposed by the statutes and offends the intent of the legislature in restricting the duration of punishment imposed by the courts”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Goss cites Robinson v. State in support of his contention that his suspended sentence was erroneous. Robinson v. State, 585 So.2d 757 (Miss. 1991). In Robinson , we held the trial court suspended the defendant's sentence in violation of § 47-7-33 due to the defendant's prior felony conviction. Robinson, 585 So.2d at 759 . The uncertainty in the instant case stems from the distinguishable fact that only part of Goss's sentence was suspended by the lower court rather than the entire sentence as in Robinson . We find that the wording of the statute not only restricts the courts' ability to place defendants with prior felony convictions on probation, but it also restricts their ability to wholly or partially suspend the sentence of a previously convicted felon. Therefore, the lower court erred in sentencing Goss, a convicted felon, to serve seven years in the state penitentiary followed by a conditional three year suspended sentence. Goss is simply not entitled to a suspended sentence in light of his prior conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [I]n its order allowing suspension of a sentence, the court will generally prescribe terms and conditions which the prisoner must follow in order for the suspension period to continue. These conditions serve as the terms of “probation.” ... If a prisoner is under court imposed probation, he or she may be placed in prison if the conditions of probation are not followed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tunstall v. State · Conner v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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