Harper 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 the trial court should modify an improper instruction or advise counsel of the deficiencies and “afford counsel a reasonable opportunity to present a new instruction”
• stating “the lesser- included crime is encompassed within the crime for which the accused is indicted.”
• stating “the lesser-included crime is encompassed within the crime for which the accused is indicted.”
• a lesser offense instruction should be granted unless no reasonable juror could find that the defendant committed the lesser offense
• a lesser offense instruction should be granted unless no reasonable juror could find that the defendant committed the lesser offense
• a lesser-offense instruction should be granted unless no reasonable juror could find that the defendant committed the lesser offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• 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×
• MacKbee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 336×
• Mease v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-01· cited 318×
• Pinkney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 316×
• Hunter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 307×
• Faraga v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 301×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 290×
• Abram v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-29· cited 286×
• Giles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 255×
• Butler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-26· cited 253×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Turner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-04· cited 202×
• Jefferson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-22· cited 174×
• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-12-16· cited 171×
• Harveston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-08-20· cited 164×
• Ormond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-04-15· cited 162×
• Humphrey v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-04-20· cited 130×

Cites

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

• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Booker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 264×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 264×
• Newell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-01-27· cited 242×
• Fairchild v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 201×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 146×
• Glass v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 111×
• Oates v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-11-03· cited 95×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-06-01· cited 87×
• Spikes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-10-28· cited 84×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-30· cited 80×
• Warn v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-09-21· cited 75×
• Ruffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-25· cited 70×
• Harbin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-02· cited 68×
• McDaniel v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-15· cited 64×
• Shelton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 60×
• Gillum v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-04-24· cited 54×
• Heard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1882-04-15· cited 50×