Davis 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 trial delay for DNA testing was attributable to the State, but was mere negligence
• relief granted only when the accused demonstrates that the trial court's abuse of discretion was so egregious as to deny due process and as to render his trial fundamentally unfair

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 382×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 375×
• Bullock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-08-06· cited 361×
• Pinkney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 316×
• Rubenstein v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-08-10· cited 256×
• Dufour v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 240×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-18· cited 156×
• Branch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 121×
• Dennis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-10-25· cited 85×
• Burt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-10· cited 75×
• Richardson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-09-14· cited 58×
• Lentz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-10· cited 29×
• Havard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-05-22· cited 27×
• Lowe v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-12-12· cited 21×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-01-31· cited 6×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-05-14· cited 2×
• Dante Lamar Evans v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-03-12

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-11-16· cited 174×
• The People v. Watson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1966-12-01· cited 106×
• Luther James Bradford v. United States of America, Johnny Paul Washam v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-07-11· cited 67×
• Tommy McNeal v. William Hollowell, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-11-23· cited 58×
• Laughter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 13×
• Bright v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-04-22· cited 12×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-05-27· cited 9×
• King v. Cook
  N.D. Mississippi· 1969-01-22· cited 5×
• Phillips v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-04-03· cited 4×