Laney v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• instructions requested by defendant were somewhat confusing as well as repetitious of other instructions offered to the jury, and were properly refused by the court
• defendant shot police officers because God purportedly commanded the act and presented insanity defense to jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jeffrey D. Lundgren v. Betty Mitchell, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-03-13· cited 562×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-26· cited 289×
• Clemons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-11-30· cited 235×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-22· cited 202×
• Roundtree v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-10-03· cited 188×
• De La Beckwith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-22· cited 151×
• Sudduth v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-04-25· cited 121×
• Stevens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-13· cited 121×
• Montana v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-07-25· cited 115×
• Windham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-05-20· cited 84×
• Ronk v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-05-07· cited 83×
• Collins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-02-05· cited 81×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-01-11· cited 78×
• Stevens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-28· cited 74×
• Dunn v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-15· cited 55×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-10· cited 38×
• Hunter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-05-28· cited 37×
• Singing River Mall Company v. Mark Fields, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-04-01· cited 36×
• Christmas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-12· cited 33×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Groseclose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-10-12· cited 463×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-16· cited 296×
• Laney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-10-13· cited 250×
• Emanuel v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-04-21· cited 50×
• Frost v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-07-25· cited 18×
• Lias v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-08-23· cited 18×
• Barr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-05-31· cited 17×
• Merrill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-05· cited 9×