Farris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “So long as a fair reading of the indictment, taken as a whole, clearly describes the nature and cause of the charge against the accused, the indictment is legally sufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-02· cited 212×
• Moffett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-09-16· cited 97×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-25· cited 81×
• Shelton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-07-31· cited 67×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-02-20· cited 60×
• Debrow v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-11-29· cited 46×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-12-11· cited 46×
• Robert Carson v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-11-17· cited 42×
• Ginn v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-09· cited 39×
• Trustmark National Bank v. Johnson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-02-12· cited 34×
• State of Mississippi v. Hattie Hawkins
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-08-14· cited 21×
• Joseph Ronald Hartfield v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-03-05· cited 21×
• Sanderson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-23· cited 19×
• State v. Oliver
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-02· cited 15×
• Flaggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-05-27· cited 12×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-08-01· cited 11×
• Gulley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-01-09· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-05-15· cited 7×
• Lambert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-06-19· cited 7×

Cites

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

• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Bourjaily v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 2,639×
• Wayte v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 1,692×
• United States v. Batchelder
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,568×
• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• Groseclose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-10-12· cited 463×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Pinkney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 316×
• Johnston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-09-19· cited 190×
• Gleeton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 157×
• State Ex Rel. Moore v. Molpus
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-04-03· cited 148×
• Duplantis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-12· cited 147×
• United States v. Robert Moss (92-1132) Ronald Kohn (92-1136) Joann Climpson (92-1144) and Randy Richardson (92-1155)
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-01-28· cited 123×
• Tolbert v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-12· cited 116×
• United States v. Freddie Ocampo Arce and Harold Pineda-Velez
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-09-30· cited 89×
• Church of God Pent., Inc. v. Freewill Pent. Church of God, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-06-04· cited 86×
• Mississippi Transp. Com'n v. Fires
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-08· cited 80×