McFadden v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “A pro se complaint is held ‘to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers.’” (quoting Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 529, 92 S. Ct. 594, 596, 30 L. Ed. 2d 652, 654 (1972))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Palmer v. Anderson Infirmary Benevolent Ass'n
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-23· cited 190×
• Daniels v. GNB, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-12-16· cited 182×
• Puckett v. Stuckey
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-12-09· cited 145×
• Downs v. Choo
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-05-11· cited 79×
• Drummond v. Buckley
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-09-02· cited 71×
• Miss. Transp. Com'n v. Ronald Adams Cont.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-02-17· cited 68×
• Skelton v. Twin County Rural Elec. Ass'n
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-31· cited 57×
• Franklin v. Thompson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-12· cited 49×
• Jenkins v. City of Grenada, Miss.
  N.D. Mississippi· 1993-01-25· cited 42×
• Askew v. Askew
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-08-07· cited 41×
• Yowell v. James Harkins Builder, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-01· cited 28×
• Ales v. Ales
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 28×
• Boston v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-04-04· cited 21×
• Evans v. Trader
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-01-21· cited 20×
• LUMBERMAN'S UNDERWRITING v. Rosedale
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-31· cited 18×
• Pollard v. Sherwin-Williams Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-02-15· cited 17×
• Elkins v. McKenzie
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-30· cited 16×
• Yazoo Prop. v. Katz & Besthoff No. 284, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-10-13· cited 13×
• Harvey v. Stone County School Dist.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-10-14· cited 13×
• McDonald v. Mississippi Power Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 12×

Cites

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

• Haines v. Kerner
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-22· cited 26,103×
• Hewitt v. Helms
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 3,877×
• Meachum v. Fano
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-25· cited 3,743×
• Olim v. Wakinekona
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-26· cited 3,076×
• Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 2,461×
• Montanye v. Haymes
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-25· cited 1,017×
• Brown v. Credit Center, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-12-14· cited 543×
• Newell v. Hinton
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-01-31· cited 167×
• Dennis v. Searle
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-10-10· cited 134×
• Marvin Jones, on His Own Behalf and on Behalf of Those Similarly Situated v. Fred R. Diamond, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-04-26· cited 105×
• McCray v. Sullivan
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-03-19· cited 103×
• Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Devers
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-11-11· cited 91×
• McFadden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-01· cited 78×
• Grantham v. Dept. of Corrections
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-02· cited 71×
• Jay Lynott v. J. D. Henderson, Warden, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-01-25· cited 49×
• Matiyn v. Henderson
  Second Circuit· 1988-03-01· cited 39×
• Allison v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-05-03· cited 36×
• Moses I. Lewis, Jr. v. Morris Thigpen, Commissioner, Department of Corrections, Defendants
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-08-08· cited 33×
• Frank O. Castaneda v. Gary L. Henman
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-10-01· cited 30×
• Sidney Renee Davis and Samuel John Major Davis, Jr. v. Norman Carlson, Director, U.S. Bureau of Prisons
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-02-22· cited 15×