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.

• noting that remoteness under the Rules of Evidence is a Rule 403 question, and that Rule 401 defines relevant evidence very broadly
• threats made 10 months before murder were held not to be too remote

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Balfour v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-25· cited 344×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-14· cited 275×
• Puckett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-25· cited 271×
• Minnick v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 249×
• Howard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-26· cited 204×
• Roundtree v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-10-03· cited 188×
• Newell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-12-02· cited 187×
• McNeal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-05-27· cited 152×
• De La Beckwith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-22· cited 151×
• Hart v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 131×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-03-18· cited 128×
• Crawford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-01-20· cited 123×
• Dycus v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-04-15· cited 121×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 116×
• Wilson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 108×
• Jimpson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-09-14· cited 107×
• Cooper v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-05-30· cited 97×

Cites

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

• Hoffa v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-12· cited 2,107×
• United States v. Henry
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-16· cited 1,013×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-10-05· cited 242×
• Dycus v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-10· cited 228×
• David Owen v. Kerr-Mcgee Corporation and the Home Indemnity Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-02-18· cited 202×
• Gavin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-31· cited 194×
• House v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-25· cited 121×
• Jenkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-29· cited 106×
• Nicholson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-16· cited 103×
• Detroit Marine Engineering v. McRee
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 101×
• Weeks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 69×
• Henry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-26· cited 65×
• Miskelley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-11-06· cited 63×
• Hooten v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-05-07· cited 58×
• Grooms v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-29· cited 42×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-04-18· cited 42×
• Page v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-07-09· cited 38×
• Feranda v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-10-09· cited 29×
• Stewart v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-10-06· cited 28×
• Dale v. Bridges
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-05-13· cited 24×