Dennis 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 no Batson violation when the prosecutor exercised five of his seven peremptory challenges against African Americans; where prosecutor offered to provide race-neutral reasons when none were required; and where one African American juror was selected for the jury
• improper speculative testimony rendered nonprejudicial when trial court sustained objection and instructed jury to disregard it
• violation of Rule 4.06 is harmless \unless it shall appear from the whole record that such ... has resulted in a miscarriage of justice.\
• improper speculative testimony rendered non-prejudicial when trial court sustained objection and instructed jury to disregard it
• improper speculative testimony rendered non-prejudicial when trial court sustained objection and instructed jury to disregard it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Hoops v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-22· cited 454×
• Lester v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-07· cited 278×
• Rubenstein v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-08-10· cited 256×
• Snelson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-11-06· cited 202×
• Kolberg v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-08· cited 199×
• Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co. v. Berry
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-15· cited 197×
• Archer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-07-24· cited 146×
• Stevens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-13· cited 121×
• Pulphus v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-02-08· cited 110×
• Haggerty v. Foster
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-12-05· cited 88×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-05-03· cited 81×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-01-11· cited 78×
• Cox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-08-02· cited 77×
• Clark v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-08· cited 59×
• Whigham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-31· cited 54×
• Hicks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-05-22· cited 45×
• Givens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-05-27· cited 45×
• Baldwin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-11· cited 44×
• Baine v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-10· cited 43×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Castaneda v. Partida
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 1,507×
• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• Avery v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1953-07-14· cited 541×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-08· cited 354×
• Box v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-24· cited 275×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 264×
• Odom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-15· cited 120×
• United States v. Andre Montgomery, A/K/A Andre Montgomery Bey
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-05-26· cited 102×
• United States v. Anthony Grandison, United States of America v. Vernon Evans, Jr., United States of America v. Rodney Kelly
  Fourth Circuit· 1989-11-14· cited 89×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 86×
• Pannell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-09-05· cited 56×
• Craft v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1956-01-16· cited 52×
• United States v. Jacob Cartlidge, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-01-14· cited 50×
• Weaver v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-24· cited 47×
• Holifield v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-03-26· cited 46×
• Horne v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-05-07· cited 45×