Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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. “"Every court of record has general authority over its own records. The power of such a court to correct its records so as to make them speak the truth is inherent.". . . . "Where it clearly appears that the judgment as entered is not the sentence which the law ought to have pronounced upon the facts as established by the record, the court acts upon the presumption that the error is a clerical misprision rather than a judicial blunder and sets the judgment entry right by an amendment nunc pro tunc."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 142 So. 3d 1091 - Jeffrey Wayne Yeatman v. State of Mississippi · 919 So. 2d 282 - Harvey v. State

2. “solemn declarations in open court carry a strong presumption of veracity.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Herrod v. State · Nichols v. State

3. “In entering the amended judgments, the court acted within its inherent authority `to correct clerical errors... and to make the judgment entry correspond with the judgment rendered.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 919 So. 2d 282 - Harvey v. State