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852 So. 2d 653 - Holifield v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 2010
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bordenkircher v. Hayes · 556 So. 2d 1016 - Jefferson v. State · 735 So. 2d 1099 - Colenburg v. State · 577 So. 2d 390 - Anderson v. State · 635 So. 2d 851 - Banana 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Mississippi's law dictates only two exceptions in which a voluntary guilty plea does not waive a defect. If an indictment fails to charge a necessary element of a crime or if there exists no subject matter jurisdiction, then a guilty plea does not constitute a waiver.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “where an indictment tracks the language of a criminal statute it is sufficient to inform the accused of the charge against him.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “valid, guilty plea operates as a waiver of all non jurisdictional rights or defects which are incident to trial,”
    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.