Blue 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 confession of a seventeen-year-old with a low IQ voluntary in a capital murder case
• finding that any prejudicial effect of the State’s comment on the defendant’s post-Miranda silence “was corrected by the jury instructions”
• death sentence proportionate where defendant abused drugs and alcohol at an early age, came from dysfunctional family, and had no positive role models at home
• death sentence proportionate where defendant abused drugs and alcohol at an early age, came from dysfunctional family, and had no positive role models at home
• death sentence proportionate where defendant abused drugs and alcohol at an early age, came from dysfunctional family, and had no positive role models at home
• death sentence proportionate where defendant abused drugs and alcohol at an early age, came from dysfunctional family, and had no positive role models at home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 314×
• Simmons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-13· cited 301×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-27· cited 301×
• Underwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-02-12· cited 282×
• Lester v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-07· cited 278×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-14· cited 275×
• Wells v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-12· cited 274×
• Puckett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-25· cited 271×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 267×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-12· cited 261×
• Rubenstein v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-08-10· cited 256×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-15· cited 255×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-12· cited 245×
• Wilcher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-03-13· cited 242×
• McGilberry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-03· cited 242×
• Hughes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-31· cited 231×

Cites

241 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×
• Anders v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 87,848×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Murray v. Carrier
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 7,499×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Wainwright v. Sykes
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-23· cited 6,068×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Harris v. Reed
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 3,033×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Ylst v. Nunnemaker
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-24· cited 2,430×