Billiot v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that to be competent under Ford, a prisoner must \have a rational understanding of what it means to be exe- cuted\
• rejecting argument that death row inmate suffering from paranoid schizophrenia is not competent to be executed
• rejecting argument that death row inmate suffering from paranoid schizophrenia is not competent to be executed
• Because “this case was remanded for the limited reason of determining present insanity,” the Court barred the issue regarding the constitutionality of the statute addressing insane, condemned prisoners
• rejecting reliance on a three-vote plurality

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 258×
• Goff v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-05-28· cited 189×
• Burrough v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-04-02· cited 128×
• Van Tran v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-11-23· cited 76×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 68×
• Percy Levar Walton v. Gene M. Johnson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-03-09· cited 65×
• Coe v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-03-06· cited 62×
• Billiot v. Puckett
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-02-12· cited 32×
• Rochell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-09-23· cited 28×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-08· cited 25×
• Marlon Latodd Howell v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-10-09· cited 21×
• Greenwood Utilities v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-12-11· cited 14×
• Provenzano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 10×
• Madden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-06-29· cited 9×
• Chapell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-06-19· cited 8×
• Burns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 7×
• Nance v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-09-05· cited 7×
• Billiot v. Epps
  S.D. Mississippi· 2009-11-03· cited 6×
• Higginbotham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-02-26· cited 6×
• Battaglia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-09-20· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Drope v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-19· cited 2,695×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-30· cited 2,137×
• Ford v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,525×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Balfour v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-25· cited 344×
• Irving v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-08-02· cited 331×
• Hill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-05-04· cited 307×
• Culberson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-11-28· cited 284×
• Russell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-12· cited 253×
• Harrison v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-14· cited 247×
• Chamblee v. Chamblee
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-02· cited 209×
• Christophersen v. Allied-Signal Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-08-15· cited 146×
• Irving v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 132×
• Rice Researchers, Inc. v. Hiter
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-02· cited 118×