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.

• finding officer had probable cause to arrest defendant under totality of circumstances, where officer had information from confidential informant that defendant was selling marijuana
• detailed information that suspect was selling drugs on a particular street corroborated by several anonymous calls plus officer's personal surveillance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 313×
• Abram v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-29· cited 286×
• Shell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-29· cited 276×
• Bevill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-01-24· cited 251×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-06-03· cited 170×
• McNeal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-05-27· cited 152×
• Carney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-04-13· cited 139×
• Jaco v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 115×
• Burney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-18· cited 72×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-03-27· cited 62×
• Merritt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-04· cited 50×
• Waldrop v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 50×
• O'HALLORAN v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 40×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-15· cited 34×
• Edlin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-09· cited 31×
• Easter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-06· cited 23×
• Fox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-02-24· cited 21×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-07-19· cited 21×
• Goss v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 17×
• Ott v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 16×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• United States v. Matlock
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-20· cited 3,648×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Read v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 371×
• Leatherwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-31· cited 246×
• Keys v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-02· cited 131×
• Lambert v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-10-31· cited 121×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-07-13· cited 94×
• Michael Scott Martin v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-08-13· cited 66×
• Breckenridge v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 54×
• Hollingsworth v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-01-07· cited 35×
• Bryant v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 35×
• Henry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-05· cited 31×
• Coyne v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-26· cited 28×
• Gandy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-28· cited 28×
• Ward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-12-12· cited 26×
• Martin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-05· cited 25×
• Thames v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-07-25· cited 23×
• Riddles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 18×
• Moore v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 15×