Griffin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant convicted of capital murder while in the commission of a robbery was not entitled to a manslaughter instruction
• holding improper remarks and tactics that were virtually identical to those that Wiley's prosecutor used
• prosecutor's mention of possibility of parole during closing arguments contributed to cumulative errors warranting reversal of case
• prosecutor's mention of possibility of parole during closing arguments contributed to cumulative errors warranting reversal of case
• death sentence reversed because of prosecutorial misconduct in commenting on defendant's failure to testify
• Contemporaneous objection is not needed where defendant has been denied a fundamentally fair trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• 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×
• 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×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 382×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Ladner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-17· cited 343×
• Jenkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-09-10· cited 339×
• MacKbee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 336×
• Blue v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-15· cited 332×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 314×
• Simmons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-13· cited 301×

Cites

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

• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Bullock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-08-06· cited 361×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-08· cited 354×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 351×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-05· cited 327×
• Nixon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-25· cited 322×
• Mease v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-01· cited 318×
• Hill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-05-04· cited 307×
• Culberson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-11-28· cited 284×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-05· cited 280×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-04-16· cited 277×
• Dufour v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 240×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-18· cited 156×