Murphy v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where no specific ground for objection was given, and where ground was obvious from context, issue could be considered on appeal
• A defendant who “opens the door” to a particular issue runs the risk that collateral, irrelevant, or otherwise damaging evidence may come in on cross-examination.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Balfour v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-25· cited 344×
• Heidel v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 332×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 314×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 264×
• Harrison v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-14· cited 247×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 219×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-12-16· cited 171×
• Randall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 170×
• Lynch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 153×
• Kolberg v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-08-29· cited 115×
• Hewlett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-05· cited 75×
• Suan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-05· cited 74×
• Acevedo v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-04-10· cited 71×
• Doby v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 63×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-01-17· cited 63×
• Veasley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-04-22· cited 62×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Reddix v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-02-13· cited 283×
• Wilcher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-04-25· cited 260×
• Myers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-05-27· cited 58×
• Young v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-01-05· cited 47×
• Stokes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1961-03-06· cited 41×
• Myers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-11-06· cited 34×
• Jefferson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-07-30· cited 32×
• Gilliard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 25×
• Crapps v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-04-21· cited 20×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-02-03· cited 20×
• Valentine v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-03-25· cited 20×
• Parks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-10-09· cited 19×
• Daumer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-03-05· cited 16×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-04-10· cited 13×