May 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 that a son could not waive the right of the father to object to the warrantless search of his house
• in prosecution of defendant for murder of wife, testimony of daughter that defendant had on a prior occasion fired a pistol at his wife held admissible to prove intent and absence of accident
• photos of victim's body, generally admissible in homicide cases, may be excluded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Groseclose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-10-12· cited 463×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Bullock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-08-06· cited 361×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 351×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 313×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-12· cited 245×
• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-19· cited 160×
• Lambert v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-10-31· cited 121×
• Spann v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-08-24· cited 116×
• Stevens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-10-17· cited 90×
• Stevens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-28· cited 74×
• Kelly v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-30· cited 63×
• Miller v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-05-06· cited 53×
• People v. Jacobs
  California Supreme Court· 1987-01-02· cited 48×
• Cummings v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-02-24· cited 47×
• Upshaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-10-26· cited 46×
• Herron v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-01-07· cited 45×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stokes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1961-03-06· cited 41×
• Raines v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1902-10-15· cited 33×
• Seals v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1950-01-23· cited 32×
• Henry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-06-03· cited 28×
• Martin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1953-05-11· cited 28×
• Hancock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1950-10-02· cited 27×
• Hawkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1955-05-16· cited 27×
• Slyter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-02-11· cited 27×
• Spears v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1965-05-17· cited 22×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1953-10-12· cited 18×
• Sims v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1950-10-02· cited 12×
• Page v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1950-02-13· cited 12×
• Joyce v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1956-05-07· cited 10×
• Hampton v. Security Storage and Van Company
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1962-12-03· cited 6×
• Buie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1953-05-25· cited 6×
• Petty v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1903-10-15· cited 2×