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.

• stating \it is the duty of the trial judge to instruct the jury and not the district attorney\
• reversing conviction due to prosecutorial misconduct in arguing facts not in evidence denying defendant of his right to a fair trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-04-25· cited 406×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-05· cited 327×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-27· cited 301×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-16· cited 296×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 222×
• Goff v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-05-28· cited 189×
• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-17· cited 180×
• Havard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-02-09· cited 173×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-04-03· cited 164×
• Galloway v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-06-06· cited 160×
• Sheppard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-11-22· cited 150×
• Handley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 147×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-04-23· cited 140×
• Dunaway v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-26· cited 87×
• Monk v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-12· cited 83×
• Dancer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-20· cited 83×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Catholic Diocese of Natchez-Jackson v. Jaquith
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-06-09· cited 54×
• Holifield v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-03-26· cited 46×
• Pitts v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1951-03-26· cited 19×
• Terrell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-04-17· cited 16×
• Pearson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1965-11-15· cited 10×
• Kent v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-12-07· cited 5×
• Welch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1917-03-15· cited 2×