Coleman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding death penalty was excessive where defendant was first fired upon by victim and defendant did not shoot eyewitness
• noting a defendant’s failure to object to the State’s comments in closing argument, regardless of a motion for mistrial after the jury retired, was considered untimely
• juror observed defendant in prison clothing while passing open doorway

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pulley v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,080×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• 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×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 388×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-08-21· cited 403×
• Irving v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-08-02· cited 331×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-05-24· cited 326×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-11-22· cited 283×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-10-05· cited 242×
• Washington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-07-12· cited 196×
• Alvord v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-09-17· cited 113×
• Alford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-01-29· cited 88×
• Saucier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-03-09· cited 36×
• Powe v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 25×
• Black v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 23×
• Irving v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-11-17· cited 19×
• Clark v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1950-10-02· cited 16×
• Coburn v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1964-10-19· cited 14×
• Stewart v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-02-12· cited 12×
• Rome v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-08-10· cited 9×
• McLeod v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-12-08· cited 6×