Mason v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Facts asserted to exist must and ought to be definitively proved and placed before us by a record, certified by law; otherwise, we cannot know them.”
• “Facts asserted to exist must and ought to be definitely proved and placed before us by a record, certified by law; otherwise, we cannot know them”
• assertions in the brief without support in the record are without merit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Underwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-02-12· cited 282×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Wallace v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-10-29· cited 168×
• Colenburg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-03-23· cited 132×
• Pulphus v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-02-08· cited 110×
• Cooper v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-05-30· cited 97×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-09-18· cited 95×
• Moawad v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-09-14· cited 94×
• Robinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-26· cited 87×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-17· cited 79×
• Burney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-18· cited 72×
• Fuselier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-04-20· cited 64×
• Thomas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-03-04· cited 55×
• Nathan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-10-25· cited 53×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-04-09· cited 53×
• McDerment v. Mississippi Real Estate Com'n
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-09-23· cited 51×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-08· cited 43×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-12-19· cited 336×
• Gilliard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-02-16· cited 276×
• Shelton v. Kindred
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-06-25· cited 119×
• Branch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-07-13· cited 104×
• Phillips v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-10-27· cited 77×
• Robinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-05-11· cited 47×
• Irving v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-11-17· cited 19×