Evans v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• food store clerk shot in course of robbery; no suggestion in opinion of substantial pre-death mental anguish or pain after shooting
• death penalty was proportionate where defendant waited 30 minutes for business to be free of customers before robbing and shooting store attendant
• jury can consider evidence of mental torture and aggravation of victim presented via nine color photographs showing the body of victim at scene of crime
• capital murder defendant's guilty plea does not preclude the prosecution's proof of details of the crime at sentencing phase
• victim knelt behind cash register with a gun to his head, forced to open register, then forced again to kneel on floor, where he was assaulted and shot
• death penalty was proportionate where defendant waited 30 minutes for business to be free of customers before robbing and shooting store attendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• Stringer v. Black
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 682×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-04-25· cited 406×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×

Cites

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

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Boulden v. Holman
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-02· cited 477×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-12-19· cited 336×
• Irving v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-08-02· cited 331×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-05-24· cited 326×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-04-14· cited 269×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-09-26· cited 269×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-10-05· cited 242×
• Maxwell v. Bishop
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-01· cited 233×
• Elledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 200×
• Washington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-07-12· cited 196×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-27· cited 109×
• Richard Gerald Jordan v. John C. Watkins, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-08-06· cited 101×
• Hargrave v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-06-30· cited 91×
• Armstrong v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-10-07· cited 76×
• Ambook Enterprises v. Time Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1980-08-22· cited 65×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-02· cited 56×