Alexander v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming a trial court’s denial of a motion for mistrial on the grounds that “[c]ase law unequivocally holds that the trial judge is in the best position for determining the prejudicial effect of an objectionable remark”
• The impropriety of the following remark was deemed cured by the judge's admonishment: \Thank God we didn't have a murder.\
• The impropriety of the following remark was deemed cured by the judge's admonishment: \Thank God we didn't have a murder.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-04-25· cited 406×
• Wells v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-12· cited 274×
• Butler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-26· cited 253×
• Roundtree v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-10-03· cited 188×
• Ormond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-04-15· cited 162×
• Weatherspoon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 147×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-05-03· cited 81×
• Reining v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-19· cited 47×
• Alexander v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-10· cited 44×
• Murrell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-04-27· cited 44×
• Henderson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-08-17· cited 39×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-11-21· cited 24×
• Pruitt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-07-13· cited 19×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-17· cited 16×
• Forbes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-06-27· cited 15×
• Turner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-06-06· cited 10×
• Barnes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-06-27· cited 10×
• Shipp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-09-21· cited 8×
• Sanchez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-02-06· cited 6×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-07-16· cited 3×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-08· cited 354×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-04-16· cited 277×
• Holifield v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-03-26· cited 46×
• Harden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-03-06· cited 37×