McLemore v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• cautioning that prior crimes must be used only to attack an accused's credibility as the risk is great that a jury may conclude the accused committed the present crime because he had a prior criminal tendency
• cautioning that prior crimes must be used only to attack an accused's credibility as the risk is great that a jury may conclude the accused committed the present crime because he had a prior criminal tendency
• “Having made an objection at trial, the objection was preserved for appellate purposes despite its failure to 10 appear in the appellant’s motion for a new trial”
• before appellate court can review \motions made upon the ground of inadequate or excessive damages\ they must be presented to the trial court
• before appellate court can review \all new matters\ must be first presented to the trial court
• before appellate court can review “motions made upon the ground of inadequate or excessive damages” they must be presented to the trial court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Burns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-19· cited 209×
• Stevens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-13· cited 121×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-09-05· cited 89×
• Croft v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-10-09· cited 42×
• Curtis Giovanni Flowers v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-11-13· cited 42×
• Graves v. Dudley Maples, LP
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-03-08· cited 20×
• Henton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 19×
• Torrey v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-11-18· cited 19×
• Clayton Frank Gutierrez v. Trisha Gutierrez
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-06-15· cited 13×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-10-12· cited 10×
• Ferrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-05-22· cited 8×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-11-26· cited 7×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-12-10· cited 3×
• Dillard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-02-20· cited 1×
• Sharon Allison v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-03-14
• Marvin Lewis Jones v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-17
• Joseph Daniel Burns v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-09-06
• Kenyatta Henton v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-10
• Walter White v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-05
• Benny Joe Stevens v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-12-04

Cites

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

• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Shell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-29· cited 353×
• Fleming v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-17· cited 292×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-05· cited 280×
• Shell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-29· cited 276×
• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-12-16· cited 171×
• Crenshaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-02-10· cited 158×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-05-11· cited 114×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-17· cited 79×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-12-08· cited 74×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-03-04· cited 72×
• Howard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-08· cited 70×
• Cantrell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 46×
• McInnis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-04· cited 45×
• Colson v. Sims
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-03-17· cited 43×
• Bogard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-09-16· cited 37×
• Cooper v. Lawson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-07-03· cited 31×
• Peters v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-05-05· cited 27×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-12-07· cited 25×
• Donald v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 24×