Hester v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• even if the evidence is meager and highly unlikely, a defendant is entitled to present his defense and have the jury instructed accordingly

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hunter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 307×
• Giles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 255×
• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Hart v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 131×
• Humphrey v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-04-20· cited 130×
• Kolberg v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-08-29· cited 115×
• Harris v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-12-31· cited 111×
• Haddox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-16· cited 93×
• Adams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-10-19· cited 79×
• Manuel v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-30· cited 72×
• Hurns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-04-01· cited 70×
• Ruffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-10-23· cited 58×
• Gary v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-06-01· cited 52×
• Morris v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-05-11· cited 40×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-31· cited 36×
• Alexander v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-11-18· cited 19×
• Slater v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 14×
• Neese v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-10-14· cited 13×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1998-12-18· cited 11×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-11-13· cited 8×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fairchild v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 201×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 146×
• Murphy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-08-01· cited 103×
• Sayles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-08· cited 97×
• Ruffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-25· cited 70×
• Young v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-09· cited 38×
• O'BRYANT v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-07-13· cited 31×