Lafayette 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 “[a] trial judge has great credibility with the jury, and the potential of coercion and influence is too great”
• considering the issue under plain-error analysis, which requires that the right at issue be a fundamental one

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Grayer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-07-18· cited 91×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-05-15· cited 80×
• Donald Bell v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-10-27· cited 59×
• Jesse Frank Mouton v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-05-18· cited 10×
• Kuren Cordell Keys v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2017-05-09· cited 7×
• Pascagoula-Gautier School District v. Board of Supervisors of Jackson County
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-10-20· cited 4×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-12-03· cited 1×
• Birkhead v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-02-22· cited 1×
• Melvin Grayer v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-01-26
• Daryl Conner v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-07-01
• Anthony Lafayette v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-11-24
• Gene Gales Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2020-01-28
• Rico Davion Simmons a/k/a Rico Simmons v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2024-08-06
• Derrick Goode v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2023-09-05
• Lorenzo Manuel v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2022-03-22
• Joshua Zachery Devon Oats a/k/a Joshua Oats v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-12-09

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-09-20· cited 172×
• United States v. Hitt
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-12-15· cited 171×
• Grubb v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-14· cited 147×
• Sharplin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-04-20· cited 128×
• Flora v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-19· cited 104×
• Folk v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-02-20· cited 84×
• Cox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-08-02· cited 77×
• McGee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-01-18· cited 59×
• United States v. David Anderton
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-07-09· cited 33×
• Edlin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-09· cited 31×
• Isom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-12-11· cited 26×
• Murphy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-02-02· cited 16×
• Brantley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-03· cited 16×
• Herrington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-01-30· cited 14×
• Bolton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-10-06· cited 8×
• Lafayette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-07-19· cited 5×