Green v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “A lesser-included offense instruction is warranted where the jury could find, from the evidence presented, the defendant not guilty of the crime with which he was charged, yet guilty of the lesser-included offense.”
• “[T]he Weathersby Rule is not the proper subject of an instruction to the jury.” (quoting Windham v. State, 602 So. 2d 798, 800 n.3 (Miss. 1992), and Griffin v. State, 495 So. 2d 1352, 1355 (Miss. 1986))
• \Manslaughter is a lesser included offense of murder.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Hunter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 307×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 267×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-12· cited 261×
• Young v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 152×
• Weatherspoon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 147×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-11-20· cited 136×
• Bishop v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-14· cited 135×
• Wall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 107×
• Payton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-11-06· cited 106×
• McFarland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-02-26· cited 104×
• Hawthorne v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-01-16· cited 97×
• Loden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-10-04· cited 84×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-16· cited 71×
• Walters v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-20· cited 71×
• Downs v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-08-16· cited 67×
• Gibson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-25· cited 67×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-08-03· cited 57×
• Finley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-17· cited 53×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-10-03· cited 53×

Cites

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

• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 375×
• Turner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-12· cited 313×
• Wallace v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-10-29· cited 168×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-18· cited 156×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 116×
• Burrell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-02-18· cited 104×
• Meshell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 102×
• Butler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-05-03· cited 100×
• Gates v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-26· cited 97×
• Buchanan v. Buchanan
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 92×
• Blanks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-06-21· cited 85×
• Windham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-05-20· cited 84×
• Shook v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-08· cited 79×
• Tubbs v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-08-12· cited 67×
• Jenkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-11-07· cited 67×
• Fisher v. City of Eupora
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-18· cited 65×
• Ruffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-12-04· cited 64×