Clemons 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 that “from the record there is more than enough conflicting evidence to cast at least a reasonable doubt, as to murder” and remanding case for sentencing on the charge of manslaughter
• reversing and remanding for resentencing for manslaughter instead of murder after two fights in a café and then a third fight some distance away led to Clemons stabbing the man he was fighting
• same, but only referencing “manslaughter”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tait v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-22· cited 81×
• Shields v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 68×
• Yates v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-12· cited 59×
• Henley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 55×
• Alford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 48×
• Dedeaux v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-11-24· cited 42×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 36×
• Givens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-08-30· cited 32×
• Nolan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-05-12· cited 27×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-04-25· cited 15×
• Griffith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-05-07· cited 3×
• Leggett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-02-15· cited 2×
• Nolan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-05-25· cited 2×
• Timothy Andrew Tait v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-10-30
• Robert Allen Yates v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-12
• Clonelle Shields v. State of MS
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-04-04
• Harold Lee Henley v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-11-25
• Don Jerrell Williams v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-09-06
• Clinton Wyatt Nolan v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-03-05
• Shields v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-10-25

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-10-05· cited 242×
• Wells v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-12-23· cited 39×
• Biles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-11-02· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 15×
• Bradley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-05· cited 7×