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← 812 SO2D 241 - Leverette v. State

Leverette v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2013
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 731 So. 2d 1120 - Young v. State · 691 So. 2d 929 - Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance v. Russell · Hyde Construction Co. v. Highway Materials Co. · Acker v. State · 792 So. 2d 950 - Presley 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]f a defendant who insists on a trial receives a harsher sentence than does a co-defendant who pled guilty, that can raise significant Sixth Amendment issues regarding the unfettered right to a jury trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the Supreme Court suggested that a circuit court has `inherent authority' to alter a sentence until a regular term of court expires.”
    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.