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 that once the evidence is presented to the jury, the jury may choose to believe some, none or all of the evidence presented at trial
• failure to object and raise on direct appeal no bar to review improperly submitted aggravating circumstance
• court may affirm death sentence when an invalid aggravator has been considered
• post-Maynard decision in which court recognized difficulty with \especially heinous\ factor
• post-Maynard decision in which court recognized difficulty with \especially heinous\ factor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-21· cited 985×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Ladner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-17· cited 343×
• Blue v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-15· cited 332×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Pinkney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 316×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 314×
• Simmons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-13· cited 301×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-27· cited 301×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 290×

Cites

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

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Maynard v. Cartwright
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,367×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• 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×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-08-21· cited 403×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Fuselier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-04-17· cited 366×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-01-30· cited 362×
• Bullock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-08-06· cited 361×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-08· cited 354×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 351×
• Cabello v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-01· cited 348×