722 So. 2d 706 - Berry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2014
19 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 607 So. 2d 1184 - Wallace v. State · 585 So. 2d 753 - Reynolds v. State · 554 So. 2d 313 - Trotter v. State · 648 So. 2d 73 - Berdin v. State · Burns 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sentencing is within the complete discretion of the trial court and not subject to appellate review if it is within the limits prescribed by statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every person who shall be convicted of breaking and entering the dwelling house or inner door of such dwelling house of another, whether armed with a deadly weapon or not, and whether there shall be at the time some human being in such dwelling house or not, with intent to commit some crime therein, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary not less than three (3) years nor more than twenty-five (25) years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Twenty (20) Years, Suspend Eight (8) Years, leaving Twelve (12) Years to serve in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (the Court has previously given credit for time served) ... UPON RELEASE ... the defendant is placed under the supervision of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for a period of Five (5) Years Post Release Supervision. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.