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.

• recognizing that issues not presented to the trial judge are procedurally barred, but when substantial rights are affected, this Court will review the issue under “plain error”
• reversing on Batson grounds where prosecutors used 100 percent of their peremptory strikes against African Americans
• One of the prosecutor’s peremptory challenges was deemed pretextual because there was no evidence in the record to support the reason for the strike.
• \Failure to voir dire as to the characteristic cited for the strike is also an indicator of pretext.\
• “Failure to voir dire as to the characteristic cited for the strike is also an indicator of pretext.”
• purported race-neutral reason “highly suspect” when strike not applied to similar juror of opposite race

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Flowers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 2019-06-21· cited 355×
• Goff v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-05-28· cited 189×
• Galloway v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-06-06· cited 160×
• Batiste v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-05-16· cited 151×
• Pitchford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-06-24· cited 129×
• Chamberlin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-07-17· cited 119×
• Gillett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-07-01· cited 115×
• Corrothers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-06-26· cited 99×
• Moffett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-09-16· cited 97×
• State v. Saintcalle
  Washington Supreme Court· 2013-08-01· cited 96×
• Keller v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-02-06· cited 89×
• Ronk v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-05-07· cited 83×
• Timothy Nelson Evans v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-06-15· cited 69×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-05-31· cited 66×
• Birkhead v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-02-17· cited 60×
• Strickland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-03-06· cited 52×
• Wilson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-09-24· cited 51×
• Dickerson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-06-18· cited 50×
• Estate of Jones v. Phillips Ex Rel. Phillips
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-11-06· cited 45×
• Pruitt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-07-24· cited 44×

Cites

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

• Miller-El v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court· 2003-02-25· cited 27,550×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Miller-El v. Dretke
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-13· cited 1,931×
• Dawson v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 544×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 375×
• Jenkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-09-10· cited 339×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-26· cited 289×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 267×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-31· cited 266×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 222×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Perry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-02· cited 198×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 193×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-18· cited 192×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-04-03· cited 164×