Cole 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, in case of reversal based on the overwhelming weight of the evidence, State’s key witness was incredible since “[n]ot one, but a number of aspects of [the witness’s] testimony, when considered together, [made] it an exceedingly improbable and unreasonable story”
• theft conviction reversed and remanded, testimony of accomplice should be viewed with great caution and suspicion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Dilworth v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-06-16· cited 150×
• Lambert v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-10-31· cited 121×
• Wheeler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-04-11· cited 47×
• Stack v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 44×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-04-15· cited 44×
• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-12-21· cited 35×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-03-28· cited 34×
• Clayton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-03-09· cited 33×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-11-16· cited 33×
• Quarles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-05-22· cited 32×
• Wilson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 32×
• Barnes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 32×
• Thomas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-11-02· cited 28×
• Mister v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1966-10-10· cited 25×
• Hutchins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-03-10· cited 25×
• Lamarcus Jones v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-08-11· cited 25×
• Moody v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-05-30· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-05-26· cited 19×
• Pegram v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1955-02-28· cited 18×