Goff v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• culpable negligence manslaughter instruction denied where evidence showed that defendant intentionally hit and kicked victim two times

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shumpert v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-06-29· cited 63×
• Chandler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-12-07· cited 52×
• Ethan M. Smith v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-01-27· cited 5×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-01-28· cited 3×
• Joey Montrell Chandler v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-01-14
• Jamarcus D. Shumpert v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-12-03
• Frederick Edwards, Jr. a/k/a Fredrick D. Edward a/k/a Fredrick Douglas Edwards a/k/a Frederick Douglas Edwards, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2022-09-27
• Miles Cunningham v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-09-16

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McClain v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-10-07· cited 941×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-04· cited 202×
• Strong v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-05-20· cited 89×
• Windham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-05-20· cited 84×
• Hurns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-04-01· cited 70×
• Clark v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-08· cited 59×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-11-10· cited 53×
• Triplett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-30· cited 41×
• Day v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-11-06· cited 38×
• Hickson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 24×
• Wadford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-07-09· cited 24×
• Ellis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-04-09· cited 11×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1998-12-18· cited 11×
• Miller v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 10×