McClendon v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• vacating and remanding denial of post-conviction relief when the lower court applied a clear and convincing standard as opposed to the correct legal standard of preponderance of the evidence
• post-conviction prisoner/petitioner held to clear and convincing evidence standard when his claim should have been considered under a preponderance of the evidence standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-02· cited 212×
• Schmitt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-28· cited 152×
• Corley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-04· cited 100×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-31· cited 90×
• Corley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-07· cited 84×
• Vittitoe v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-07· cited 78×
• McCarty v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-12-06· cited 75×
• Blanks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-03-15· cited 70×
• Barnwell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-08-22· cited 63×
• Weissberger v. Myers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-22· cited 55×
• Lambert v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-09-14· cited 53×
• White v. Thompson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-10-17· cited 50×
• Derouen v. Murray
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-08· cited 47×
• Meeks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-01-25· cited 46×
• Matter of Estate of Taylor
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-26· cited 45×
• Moore v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-10-09· cited 40×
• Milam v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-04-10· cited 28×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-08· cited 25×
• Winder v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-30· cited 23×
• Harden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-26· cited 22×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-05· cited 280×
• White v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-03· cited 272×
• Mullins v. Ratcliff
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-25· cited 210×
• Bell v. City of Bay St. Louis
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-04-10· cited 178×
• Riley Hill General Contractor, Inc. v. Tandy Corp.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1987-05-27· cited 175×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-06-03· cited 170×
• Reynolds v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-09· cited 127×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-21· cited 115×
• Detroit Marine Engineering v. McRee
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 101×
• Hall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-09· cited 91×
• Watts v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-07-23· cited 82×
• Levi v. Mississippi State Bar
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-07-20· cited 77×
• Merritt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-04· cited 50×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-16· cited 48×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-03-19· cited 44×
• Chisolm v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-07-20· cited 43×
• Wires v. Wires
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-07-29· cited 34×
• McGory v. Allstate Ins. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-04· cited 34×
• Walls v. Mississippi State Bar
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-24· cited 8×