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.

• where error is harmless in light of the record where a fair minded jury could have arrived at the same verdict without the prior bad act
• amendment changing the date of the alleged crime held to be one of form because the date change did not change the crime charged and did not prejudice Givens’s defense, which was not time-specific

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Webster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-01-27· cited 40×
• Dewayne Graham v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-02-25· cited 40×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-04-15· cited 18×
• Chandler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-06-12· cited 18×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-04-24· cited 16×
• Bradford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-03-23· cited 14×
• Sykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-08-24· cited 13×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-07-25· cited 13×
• Winters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-04-16· cited 10×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-12-03· cited 8×
• Triggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-01-08· cited 8×
• Weeks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-08-22· cited 8×
• Webster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-02-23· cited 7×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-06-15· cited 4×
• Bishop v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-03-07· cited 4×
• Ott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-06-08· cited 2×
• Dillard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-02-20· cited 1×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-08-14
• Malcolm Clifton Weeks v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-04-20
• Ricky E. Roberson v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2017-09-05

Cites

39 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×
• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• Groseclose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-10-12· cited 463×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 382×
• Bullock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-08-06· cited 361×
• Lester v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-07· cited 278×
• Eakes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-26· cited 240×
• Collier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-05-14· cited 194×
• Gandy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-08-15· cited 157×
• Pearson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-09· cited 149×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-05-11· cited 114×
• Malone v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-26· cited 112×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-05· cited 101×
• Doby v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-12· cited 93×
• Veal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-07· cited 80×
• Bounds v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-13· cited 75×
• Reed v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 75×
• Forrest v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-08-03· cited 71×