Givens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a defendant was not entitled to a circumstantial-evidence instruction in view of direct eyewitness testimony of a police officer who saw the defendant throw away a bag that contained contraband

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-27· cited 301×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-31· cited 266×
• Rubenstein v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-08-10· cited 256×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-19· cited 160×
• Montana v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-07-25· cited 115×
• Hooker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-07-02· cited 57×
• Terry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 42×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-08-16· cited 33×
• James McCoy v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-09-18· cited 31×
• Alexander v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-11-18· cited 19×
• Forbes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-06-27· cited 15×
• Boyd v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 15×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-02-27· cited 12×
• Rawson v. Midsouth Rail Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-02-23· cited 11×
• Savage v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-02-15· cited 6×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-06-20· cited 4×

Cites

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

• Ladner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-17· cited 343×
• Lanier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-11-02· cited 330×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-05· cited 280×
• Keys v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-02· cited 131×
• Sudduth v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-04-25· cited 121×
• Boches v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-29· cited 96×
• Stevens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-10-17· cited 90×
• Dennis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-10-25· cited 85×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-05-03· cited 81×
• Lancaster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 76×
• Nicolaou v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-26· cited 72×
• Watson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-03-12· cited 56×
• Hicks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-05-22· cited 45×
• Pueblo of Acoma v. Padilla
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 44×
• Henderson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-01· cited 40×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-12-10· cited 35×
• Matula v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-03-31· cited 33×
• Deal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-11-13· cited 28×
• Hancock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1950-10-02· cited 27×
• Moffett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-27· cited 22×