Benson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• Factual dispute over element of fear necessary in robbery and identification of assailant was properly resolved by jury.
• in habitual offender portion of indictment, failure to give dates of prior convictions did not make indictment fatally defective when other information in indictment afforded defendant access to dates
• prospective juror said that he had read in the newspaper that the defendant was a habitual offender
• prospective juror said that he had read in the newspaper that the defendant was a habitual offender
• where dates of prior convictions provided in indictment, failure to also state them in habitual offender section of indictment did not render indictment fatally defective
• prospective juror said that he had read in the newspaper that the defendant was a habitual offender

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McClain v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-10-07· cited 941×
• Herring v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-13· cited 498×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Hughes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-31· cited 231×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 219×
• Kolberg v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-08· cited 199×
• Collier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-05-14· cited 194×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-18· cited 192×
• Collins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-01-30· cited 191×
• Brewer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-07-23· cited 180×
• Parker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-31· cited 153×
• McNeal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-05-27· cited 152×
• Stewart v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-09-28· cited 145×
• Nicolaou v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-11-19· cited 125×
• Roberson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-02-26· cited 125×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-09-24· cited 122×
• Hatten v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-11-24· cited 122×
• Dudley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-20· cited 113×
• Bush v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-28· cited 112×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-26· cited 107×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• Groseclose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-10-12· cited 463×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-01-30· cited 362×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-23· cited 283×
• Gathright v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-03-12· cited 199×
• Gavin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-31· cited 194×
• York v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-12· cited 125×
• Winters v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-02-15· cited 80×
• Warn v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-09-21· cited 75×
• Clark v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 74×
• Norman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-05-21· cited 66×
• Rush v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-10-07· cited 66×
• Kelly v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-30· cited 63×
• Temple v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-11-19· cited 63×
• Hammond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-02-27· cited 53×
• Wells v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-01-21· cited 44×
• Cochran v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-05-28· cited 39×