Mitchell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming sentence of death where defendant beat, strangled, sexually assaulted, and killed victim by running over her with his car
• death penalty case where failure to cite any authority for an issue was a procedural bar
• death penalty case where failure to cite any authority for an issue was a procedural bar
• “M.R.E. 611(b) allows wide-open cross-examination so long as the matter probed is relevant.”
• “However, this discretion must be exercised within the confines of the Mississippi Rules of Evidence. . . . Reversal is proper only where such discretion has been abused and a substantial right of a party has been affected.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Simmons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-13· cited 301×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 267×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-02· cited 212×
• Goff v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-05-28· cited 189×
• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Havard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-02-09· cited 173×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 160×
• Galloway v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-06-06· cited 160×
• Lynch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 153×
• Batiste v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-05-16· cited 151×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-11· cited 149×
• Snow v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 147×
• Bishop v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-14· cited 135×
• Pitchford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-06-24· cited 129×
• Scott v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-06-10· cited 125×
• Dycus v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-04-15· cited 121×
• Branch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 121×

Cites

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

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• South Dakota v. Opperman
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 3,445×
• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Doggett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-24· cited 3,106×
• Abel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-03-28· cited 1,485×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• Illinois v. Lafayette
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-20· cited 1,216×
• United States v. Edwards
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-26· cited 917×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Herring v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-13· cited 498×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×