Hughes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “a line-up of inanimate objects is not subject to the same constitutional restrictions which burden eyewitness identifications of criminal defendants.”
• concluding that “a line-up of inanimate objects is not subject to the same constitutional restrictions which burden eyewitness identifications of criminal defendants.”
• noting that the trial judge, as a fact finder, is always in the best position to evaluate the credibility of the strikes
• noting that the trial judge, as a fact finder, is always in the best position to evaluate the credibility of the strikes
• finding evidentiary error harmless based on “overwhelming evidence from other sources that Hughes committed the rape and murder”
• affirming sentence of death based on purely circumstantial evidence where defendant beat, raped, stabbed and strangled 16-year-old victim then set victim's chest on fire after she was dead

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Chmiel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-29· cited 431×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Simmons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-13· cited 301×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 267×
• People v. Lucas
  California Supreme Court· 2014-08-21· cited 250×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-02· cited 212×
• Goff v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-05-28· cited 189×
• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Goodin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-05-17· cited 178×
• Havard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-02-09· cited 173×
• Puckett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-06-28· cited 170×
• Milano v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 170×
• Mitchell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-03-29· cited 168×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 160×
• Galloway v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-06-06· cited 160×
• Conley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-19· cited 154×
• Lynch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 153×
• Batiste v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-05-16· cited 151×

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Kyles v. Whitley
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 6,003×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Tibbs v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 3,796×
• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• Richardson v. Marsh
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 2,670×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Castaneda v. Partida
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 1,507×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• Greer v. Miller
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,215×
• McClain v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-10-07· cited 941×
• State v. Apanovitch
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1987-10-07· cited 870×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Gray v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-18· cited 634×