Ellis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• Uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice may be sufficient to convict an accused but a cautionary instruction is warranted where the testimony is unreasonable, self contradictory or substantially impeached.
• Uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice may be sufficient to convict an accused but a cautionary instruction is warranted where the testimony is unreasonable, self contradictory or substantially impeached.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Montana v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-07-25· cited 115×
• Gillett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-07-01· cited 115×
• Corrothers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-06-26· cited 99×
• Powell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-18· cited 87×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-02-20· cited 60×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-04-15· cited 44×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-05-26· cited 19×
• Windham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-11-27· cited 13×
• Bolden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2009-04-07· cited 4×
• Donelson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-08-05· cited 4×
• Barlow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-08-12· cited 4×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-12-09· cited 2×
• Eric Troy Powell v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-22
• Joseph Scott Montana v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-05-04
• Thomas Edward Smith v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-06-20
• Christopher R. Smith v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-06-10
• Derrick Demond Walker v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-06-06
• Willie L. Williams, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-11-17
• Roger Lee Gillett v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-11-05

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-05-27· cited 334×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-14· cited 275×
• Laney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-03-19· cited 96×
• Higgins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-17· cited 90×
• Hill v. Dunaway
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-04-23· cited 87×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-10-03· cited 73×
• Derden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-16· cited 56×
• McGee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-10· cited 56×
• Ferrill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-09-22· cited 34×