Kennedy 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 Kennedy’s petition alleging an illegal sentence was not time-barred or barred by res judicata
• right to be free from an illegal sentence is fundamental

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rowland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-07-29· cited 327×
• Conley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-19· cited 154×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-06-12· cited 140×
• Grayer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-07-18· cited 91×
• Rowland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-10-04· cited 85×
• Donald Keith Smith v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-10-30· cited 71×
• Charles Ray Crawford v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-08-04· cited 24×
• Retherford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-09-07· cited 18×
• Moss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-11-23· cited 9×
• Hampton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-02-19· cited 9×
• Gillett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-06-12· cited 9×
• Rowland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2009-06-09· cited 7×
• Norwood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-05-27· cited 7×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-03-26· cited 3×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2009-06-30· cited 3×
• Lay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-06-21· cited 3×
• John Joseph Dedeaux, Sr. v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-12-02· cited 2×
• Ottis J. Cummings, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-11-15· cited 2×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-04-23· cited 2×
• Lacy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-12-11· cited 2×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Luckett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-06-26· cited 144×
• Roland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-30· cited 84×
• Sneed v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-09-17· cited 50×
• Kennedy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-10-21· cited 31×
• Bullock v. HARPOLE, S. ST. PENITENTIARY
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1958-05-12· cited 25×
• Ivy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-01-16· cited 17×