Jackson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming admission of photos of four dead children stabbed in neck, chest, and face
• affirming the admission of photos of four dead children stabbed in the neck, chest, and face
• providing courts may look to the face of the prior conviction to determine validity and need not “retry all prior convictions”
• approving similar instruction which did not include \dismemberment\ clause, and added \that the Defendant inflicted physical or mental pain before death\ after the \serious mutilation\ clause
• defendant convicted of stabbing deaths of four nieces and nephews while in search of money kept in safe
• defendant stabbed and killed four children during attempted robbery of his mother’s home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• 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×
• Underwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-02-12· cited 282×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-14· cited 275×
• Wells v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-12· cited 274×
• Puckett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-25· cited 271×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 267×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-12· cited 245×
• Wilcher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-03-13· cited 242×
• McGilberry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-03· cited 242×
• Watts v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-28· cited 232×
• Hughes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-31· cited 231×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 222×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 219×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-02· cited 212×
• Turner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-04· cited 202×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Lewis v. Jeffers
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,972×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• Morgan v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-15· cited 1,584×
• Skipper v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 1,534×
• Schad v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 1,454×
• J. E. B. v. Alabama ex rel. T. B.
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-19· cited 1,420×
• Lowenfield v. Phelps
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-07· cited 1,385×
• JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-19· cited 1,335×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• Saffle v. Parks
  Supreme Court· 1990-03-05· cited 1,054×