Duke v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “when the impossibility grows out of extraneous facts not within control of the party, impossibility is not a defense”
• affirming an attempted murder conviction under murder for hire facts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-11-03· cited 310×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-04-16· cited 277×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-04-14· cited 269×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-09-26· cited 269×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-17· cited 180×
• Vickery v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-11-30· cited 160×
• People v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 116×
• State v. Manchester
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1983-03-11· cited 109×
• McGowan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-03-22· cited 85×
• State v. Burd
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-12-11· cited 36×
• State v. Disanto
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2004-10-06· cited 35×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-11-12· cited 23×
• State v. Daniel B.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2019-03-05· cited 11×
• Hughes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-11-21· cited 7×
• State v. Curtis
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-12-20· cited 7×
• Shaffer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-09-14· cited 7×
• Butler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-10-10· cited 5×
• Shawn Douglas Moffett a/k/a Shawn Moffett v. State of Mississippi;
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2019-11-12
• Victor A. Mitchell a/k/a Victor Albert Mitchell a/k/a Victor Mitchell v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2021-03-23
• Shameka L. Hall a/k/a Shameka Latrice Hall a/k/a Shameka Hall a/k/a Shamekia Latrice Hall v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-10-07

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Holifield v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-03-26· cited 46×
• Herron v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-01-07· cited 45×
• Ford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-02-03· cited 22×