Butler v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he trial court enjoys considerable discretion, and, so long as that court exercises that discretion by reference to the correct legal standards, we will not reverse absent substantial abuse of discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ormond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-04-15· cited 162×
• Stromas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-04-29· cited 124×
• Spann v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-08-24· cited 116×
• Baker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-13· cited 97×
• Sewell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 76×
• Shaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-08-04· cited 67×
• Thomas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-04-30· cited 57×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 34×
• Anderson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-11-18· cited 34×
• Ellis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-07-27· cited 30×
• Muscolino v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-01-08· cited 16×
• Steen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-05-11· cited 13×
• Pittman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-11-02· cited 11×
• Quitman County v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-07-21· cited 11×
• Turner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-02-19· cited 10×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-01-08· cited 8×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-04-16· cited 7×
• Pearson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-05-10· cited 6×
• Fulks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-05-02· cited 5×
• Carlisle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-06-20· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Minnick v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-12-03· cited 848×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Heidel v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 332×
• Minnick v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 249×
• United States v. Martin Cardenas, A/K/A Raul Ramirez
  Tenth Circuit· 1989-03-17· cited 203×
• United States v. Gary Ladd
  First Circuit· 1989-09-13· cited 110×
• Wilson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 108×
• Doby v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-12· cited 93×
• Monk v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-12· cited 83×
• Cox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-28· cited 77×
• McCray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 67×
• Doby v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 63×
• Saucier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-04-25· cited 58×
• Gibson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-18· cited 57×
• Middlebrook v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-01-10· cited 55×
• Morea v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-04-06· cited 49×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-12-17· cited 36×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-31· cited 35×
• Hemphill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-08-08· cited 34×