Battaya v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Failure by a prisoner to raise objections, defenses, claims, questions, issues or errors either in fact or law which were capable of determination at trial and/or on direct appeal, regardless of whether such are based on the laws and the Constitution of the state of Mississippi or of the United States, shall constitute a waiver thereof and shall be procedurally barred, but the court may upon a showing of cause and actual prejudice grant relief from the waiver.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pinson v. State · Swilley v. State

2. “[A] guilty plea represents a break in the chain of events which has preceded it in the criminal process. When a criminal defendant has solemnly admitted in open court that he is in fact guilty of the offense with which he is charged, he many not thereafter raise independent claims relating to the deprivation of his constitutional rights that occurred prior to the entry of the guilty plea.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas J. Hooghe v. State of Mississippi · 914 So. 2d 1287 - Pevey v. State

3. “From a constitutional ... perspective, the issue [of lack of probable cause] is ... waived by the entry of a guilty plea.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jessie T. Beal v. State of Mississippi