Box 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 a juror’s failure to declare she knew and was related to a law enforcement officer created a manifest necessity for a mistrial when no alternate juror was available
• noting a defendant’s failure to object to the prosecutor’s remarks in closing argument, while followed by a motion for mistrial after the jury verdict, was deemed “too late”
• continuance was granted-State's witness was unavailable because was on a mission for the United States Department of State
• continuance was granted - State’s witness was unavailable because was on a mission for the United States Department of State
• defendant failed to contemporaneously object to the prosecutor's remarks during closing argument and a motion for mistrial, made after jury verdict of guilty, was deemed too late
• defendant failed to contemporaneously object to the prosecutor's remarks during closing argument, and a motion for mistrial, made after jury verdict of guilty, was deemed too late

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-05-09· cited 275×
• Noe v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-03-25· cited 189×
• Mitchell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-03-29· cited 168×
• Hunt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-08· cited 115×
• Burrell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-02-18· cited 104×
• State v. Magnusen
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-11-17· cited 93×
• Randolph v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-01-10· cited 86×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-16· cited 71×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-05-31· cited 66×
• Hersick v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-11-10· cited 61×
• Jenkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-11-30· cited 52×
• Townsend v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-01· cited 48×
• Crawford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 46×
• Roche v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-04-14· cited 33×
• Swann v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-07· cited 32×
• Hickson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 24×
• Jenkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-05-18· cited 18×
• Elder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-06-22· cited 13×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-03-09· cited 11×

Cites

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

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-12-19· cited 336×
• Hill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-05-04· cited 307×
• Wiley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-19· cited 287×
• Laney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-10-13· cited 250×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-10-11· cited 247×
• Handley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 147×
• Perry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-09-08· cited 130×
• Odom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-15· cited 120×
• Jaco v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 115×
• Adams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-06-19· cited 112×
• Wiley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-06-05· cited 111×
• Marks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-31· cited 96×
• Livingston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-04-27· cited 95×
• Sand v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-02-27· cited 89×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 86×
• White v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-10-08· cited 85×
• Watts v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-07-23· cited 82×