Gray v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• approving instruction that jury was to consider as a mitigating circumstance \[a]ny other matter [besides the statutory mitigating circumstances] brought before you which you may deem to be mitigating on behalf of the defendant\
• approving instruction that jury was to consider as a mitigating circumstance `[a]ny other matter [besides the statutory mitigating circumstances] brought before you which you may deem to be mitigating on behalf of the defendant'
• approving instruction that jury was to consider as a mitigating circumstance '[a]ny other matter [besides the statutory mitigating circumstances] brought before you which you may deem to be mitigating on behalf of the defendant'
• defendant sexually molested three year old victim and threw semiconscious victim into river

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-04-25· cited 406×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-01-30· cited 362×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-08· cited 354×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×

Cites

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

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-05-24· cited 326×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-11-22· cited 283×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-10-05· cited 242×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-11-16· cited 174×
• Forrest v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-08-03· cited 71×
• Lazur v. Broad Mountain Club, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-08· cited 65×
• Brooks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1971-01-04· cited 50×
• Cummings v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-02-24· cited 47×
• Holifield v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-03-26· cited 46×
• Herron v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-01-07· cited 45×
• McGarrh v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 42×
• Duke v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-12-07· cited 27×
• Peters v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-05-05· cited 27×
• New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-22· cited 24×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-06-09· cited 20×
• United States v. Rodney Bruce Harper
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-02-04· cited 15×
• Bright v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-04-22· cited 12×
• Cameron v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1958-04-28· cited 11×