MacK v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that no difference exists between direct and circumstantial evidence of which our law rationally can or ought to take account
• \I would have our juries instructed that the law makes no distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence... .\
• \There is no reason on principle why an admission by the defendant on a significant element of the offense should not also operate to render unnecessary the circumstantial evidence instruction.\
• here there was an admission

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-04-25· cited 406×
• Ladner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-17· cited 343×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 314×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-05· cited 280×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-31· cited 266×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-01-28· cited 241×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-09-20· cited 172×
• McNeal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 171×
• Lynch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 153×
• Hughes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-03-27· cited 125×
• Sudduth v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-04-25· cited 121×
• Murphy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-08-01· cited 103×
• Bennett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-05-11· cited 99×
• Boches v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-29· cited 96×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-05-03· cited 81×
• Thorson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-11-04· cited 78×
• Clark v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 74×
• Stringfellow v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-04· cited 73×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Holland v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-01-31· cited 3,238×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• State v. Gosby
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-08-28· cited 153×
• Keys v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-02· cited 131×
• State v. Harvill
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1970-11-16· cited 126×
• State v. Bell
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1977-03-01· cited 115×
• State v. Wilkins
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1974-06-15· cited 104×
• Winters v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-24· cited 100×
• State v. Lerch
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1984-02-08· cited 87×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-30· cited 80×
• Blakely v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1975-11-21· cited 78×
• Newburn v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-12-11· cited 74×
• State v. Brown
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1984-01-13· cited 74×
• Hester v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-02-13· cited 71×
• Allen v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1966-11-28· cited 44×
• Campbell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-05-21· cited 40×
• Moore v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 36×
• State v. Bush
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1977-09-30· cited 28×
• Reed v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1956-12-10· cited 28×