Irby 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 defense counsel’s “vague[]” objection that the instruction was “highly prejudicial . . . lack[ed] the specificity our precedent requires to preserve the issue for appeal”
• general objection that jury instruction is “prejudicial,” without more, is insufficient to preserve for appeal
• “Irby cannot 8 now argue that the instruction was in error since he dropped the objection and agreed that the instruction, as amended and given, was appropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Ronk v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-05-07· cited 83×
• Latiker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-10-27· cited 45×
• Golden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-09-20· cited 20×
• Larry Press Wells v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-02-12· cited 14×
• McDowell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-10-02· cited 13×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-09-11· cited 8×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-06-24· cited 3×
• Sones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2009-06-30· cited 1×
• Robert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-02-01· cited 1×
• Cary Dowden v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-11-08· cited 1×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-07-22· cited 1×
• Percy Latiker v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-01-16
• William Golden, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-04-12
• Charles Wayne Ross v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-10-04
• Timothy Robert Ronk v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-05-07
• Marcia Marie v. Heather North, M.D.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-10-15
• Sidney Keith Austin Ferguson a/k/a Sidney Keith Austin a/k/a Sidney Keith Ferguson a/k/a Sydney Ferguson v. State of Mississippi;
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2019-12-17
• John Nathaniel Pierre a/k/a John Pierre a/k/a John N. Pierre v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2026-03-24
• Joseph Anthony Zattoni a/k/a Joseph A. Zattoni a/k/a Joseph Zattoni v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2026-05-28

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Arizona v. Youngblood
  Supreme Court· 1989-01-23· cited 3,366×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 267×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-06· cited 128×
• Wilson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 108×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-20· cited 107×
• Cox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-07-17· cited 55×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 46×
• Nunnally v. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-03-25· cited 38×
• Sturdivant v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-07-22· cited 37×
• Young v. Robinson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-15· cited 31×
• Palm v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-09-30· cited 29×
• Tanner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-08-22· cited 28×
• Holifield v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-05-25· cited 8×