910 So. 2d 1160 - Ruff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
March 2015
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brown v. State · 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State · 582 So. 2d 428 - Luckett v. State · 770 So. 2d 1052 - Pace 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When it appears to the satisfaction of any circuit court or county court in the State of Mississippi, having original jurisdiction over criminal actions, or to the judge thereof, that the ends of justice and the best interests of the public, as well as the defendant, will be served thereby, such court ... shall have the power, after conviction or a plea of guilty, except in a case where a death sentence or life imprisonment is the maximum penalty which may be imposed or where the defendant has been convicted of a felony on a previous occasion in any court or courts of the United States and of any state or territories thereof, to suspend the imposition or execution of sentence, and place the defendant on probation as herein provided....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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