Jordan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• once defendant testifies to merits, prosecution is free to comment upon defendant's failure to explain the facts in evidence
• kidnap victim terrified by the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Willie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 380×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 351×
• Blue v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-15· cited 332×
• Nixon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-25· cited 322×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×

Cites

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

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Brewer v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-16· cited 2,626×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Pulley v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,080×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Dobbert v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 1,651×
• Green v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 672×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-08-21· cited 403×
• Raffel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1926-06-07· cited 374×
• State v. Gretzler
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-01-06· cited 374×