Flowers v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing where State tried defendant separately on each of four murder counts and then repeatedly used evidence of all four killings in same trial
• “counsel must have a good faith basis for any question asked on cross-examination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Flowers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 2019-06-21· cited 355×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Simmons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-13· cited 301×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 267×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-02· cited 212×
• Goff v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-05-28· cited 189×
• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Goodin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-05-17· cited 178×
• Havard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-02-09· cited 173×
• Puckett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-06-28· cited 170×
• Randall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 170×
• Mitchell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-03-29· cited 168×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-04-03· cited 164×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 160×
• Galloway v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-06-06· cited 160×
• Lynch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 153×
• Batiste v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-05-16· cited 151×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-11· cited 149×
• Snow v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 147×

Cites

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

• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 375×
• Fuselier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-04-17· cited 366×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 351×
• Balfour v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-25· cited 344×
• Ladner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-17· cited 343×
• Jenkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-09-10· cited 339×
• MacKbee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 336×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-05-27· cited 334×
• Lanier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-11-02· cited 330×
• Williamson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-12· cited 321×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 313×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-11-03· cited 310×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 290×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-23· cited 283×