Burke v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the trial court was within its discretion to deny an instruction on accomplice testimony because the witness, to whom the instruction was directed, was convicted as an accessory after the fact, not an accomplice
• finding the trial court 19 was within its discretion to deny an instruction on accomplice testimony because the witness, to whom the instruction was directed, was convicted as an accessory after the fact, not an accomplice
• The fact that the referred-to witness was not a close relative who would ordinarily be expected to be put in an unacceptable compromising position should he be called to testify was a factor considered for equal availability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. D'Ambrosio
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1993-08-25· cited 344×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-02· cited 212×
• Randall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 170×
• Slaughter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-14· cited 62×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-04-15· cited 44×
• Foley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-09-15· cited 42×
• Robert Carson v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-11-17· cited 42×
• State v. D'Ambrosio
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1993-08-24· cited 39×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 36×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-02-26· cited 36×
• Ferrill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-09-22· cited 34×
• Walton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-11-13· cited 24×
• Fox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-02-24· cited 21×
• Miller v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-09· cited 17×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-06-10· cited 10×
• Clemons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-03-20· cited 10×
• Mooneyham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-08-27· cited 10×
• Hye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-05-28· cited 7×
• Wansley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-01-26· cited 5×
• William Michael Jordan v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-12-08· cited 5×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-02-10· cited 141×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-26· cited 87×
• Van Buren v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-11-26· cited 77×
• Doby v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 63×
• Derden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-16· cited 56×
• Wheeler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-04-11· cited 47×
• Holmes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-12-04· cited 44×
• Brock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-03· cited 44×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-12· cited 38×
• Dedeaux v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1921-03-15· cited 28×
• Hussey v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-24· cited 25×
• Collins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-02-03· cited 25×
• Green v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-09-19· cited 22×
• Holmes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-21· cited 21×
• Madlock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-11-09· cited 20×
• Morgan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-10-01· cited 16×