Cowart 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 that because the death penalty was unconstitutional under Furman, the defendant must be sentenced to life

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-05-31· cited 20×
• Clingon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-04-22· cited 6×
• Ronald Chris Foster v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-09-02

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-11-06· cited 32×