Lawson 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 contempt conviction of attorney who communicated with jurors post-verdict in violation of court order to contrary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gladney v. Clarksdale Beverage Co., Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-09-30· cited 87×
• Purvis v. Purvis
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-04-27· cited 86×
• Wyssbrod v. Wittjen
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-02-08· cited 46×
• Murrell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-04-27· cited 44×
• Brake v. Speed
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-22· cited 35×
• Terry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 23×
• Brame v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-02-17· cited 13×
• Greg Spore v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-03-09· cited 4×
• Christopher Scott ROUTH v. STATE of Missisippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-04-27· cited 1×
• Kay Lynn Terry v. State of MS
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-01
• Thomas Q. Brame, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-07-10
• Bill Wyssbrod v. Jackson H. Wittjen
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-23
• John I. Donaldson, County Prosecutor for Yazoo County, Mississippi v. Honorable Mary B. Cotton, County Court Judge/Youth Court Judge of Yazoo County
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2022-04-07
• In Re: Ali M. Shamsiddeen
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2023-03-09
• Kimberlyn Seals, Felecia Perkins, Esq., Jessica Ayers, Esq. and Derek D. Hopson, Sr., Esq. v. Ernest B. Stanton, II
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2022-09-22
• In the Matter of the Conservatorship of Patsy B. Bennett: Bob Bennett, Jr. v. Joseph Bowen Bennett, Guardian and Conservator of Patsy Bowen Bennett
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-08-05
• Angela Renee Gartman Jones v. James Richard Jones
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2026-04-02

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cook v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-12· cited 32×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-01-08· cited 13×
• Langford v. Langford
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 9×