Conners v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions

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

1. “[O]bvious error which was not properly raised by the defendant and which affects a defendant's fundamental, substantive right. For the plain-error doctrine to apply, there must have been an error that resulted in a manifest miscarriage of justice or seriously affects the fairness, integrity[,] or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eddie Dwayne Hollingsworth v. State of Mississippi · Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. State of Mississippi

2. “First, we ask whether the witness has “intimate knowledge” of a particular report, even if the witness was not the primary analyst or did not perform the analysis firsthand. Seeond, we ask whether the witness was “actively involved in the production” of the report at issue. We require a witness to be "knowledgéable about both the underlying analysis and the report itself to satisfy the protections of the Confrontation Clause. If .an analyst can discuss competently the analysis performed, as well as the particular document being offered — in other words, the analyst can testify live regarding the testing, methodology, and results of the analysis, rather than, simply relying on the document to speak for itself — a defendant is adequately protected by the Confrontation Clause,”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Galloway v. State · Perry Armstead v. State of Mississippi

3. “Issues which may be raised in post-conviction proceedings may also be raised on direct appeal if such issues are based on facts fully apparent from the record. Where the appellant is represented by counsel who did not represent the appellant at trial, the failure to raise such issues on direct appeal shall constitute a waiver barring consideration of the issues in post-conviction proceedings.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pauley v. State · Marterius C. Sanders v. State of Mississippi