Blanks 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 “a 8 deliberate design cannot be formed at the very moment of the fatal act” and that this Court generally will reverse when the jury receives both instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hawthorne v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-01-16· cited 97×
• Catchings v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-05-16· cited 90×
• Corley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-07· cited 84×
• Windham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-05-20· cited 84×
• Veal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-07· cited 80×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-04-16· cited 80×
• McCarty v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-12-06· cited 75×
• Tran v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-22· cited 64×
• Graham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-06-05· cited 55×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 36×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-20· cited 29×
• Fears v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-06-29· cited 25×
• Winder v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-30· cited 23×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-02-23· cited 23×
• Tyler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-05-27· cited 22×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-01-25· cited 18×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-06-28· cited 17×
• Patrick v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-01-13· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1998-11-24· cited 15×
• Horton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1998-12-30· cited 14×

Cites

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

• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-05· cited 280×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-04· cited 202×
• Harveston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-08-20· cited 164×
• Crenshaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-02-10· cited 158×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-04-23· cited 140×
• McClendon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 95×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-11-09· cited 91×
• Windham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-12· cited 84×
• Lancaster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 76×
• Nicolaou v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-26· cited 72×
• Pittman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-07-15· cited 70×
• Burge v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 70×
• Weeks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 69×
• Estes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-26· cited 68×
• Fairman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-16· cited 39×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-05· cited 31×
• Winston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-30· cited 29×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 20×
• Toney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-08-12· cited 18×