Murrell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• self-help is limited to those situations where the arrest is unlawful and the officer and person arrested have reason to know that it is, or where the arrest is accompanied by excessive force
• self-help is limited to those situations where the arrest is unlawful and the officer and person arrested have reason to know that it is, or where the arrest is accompanied by excessive force
• The supreme court found a new trial was warranted for a conviction of simple assault because the evidence that the victim suffered pain was “so weak.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dilworth v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-06-16· cited 150×
• Bounds v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-13· cited 75×
• Wyssbrod v. Wittjen
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-02-08· cited 46×
• State v. Hobson
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1998-05-27· cited 34×
• Goodnite v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-25· cited 33×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-25· cited 29×
• In Re Hampton
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 23×
• Brady v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1998-09-15· cited 18×
• Shannon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-04-20· cited 14×
• Bright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-03-04· cited 14×
• McDonald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-05-01· cited 14×
• Gebben v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-06-05· cited 14×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-01-18· cited 9×
• Lett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-03-01· cited 9×
• Guillory v. Broussard
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2016-05-04· cited 9×
• Barber v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-06-08· cited 8×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-06-26· cited 8×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-10-22· cited 7×
• Cleveland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-12-11· cited 6×
• Keys v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-05-01· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Roberts v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 802×
• Mease v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-01· cited 318×
• United States v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 310×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-10-05· cited 242×
• Harper v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 182×
• United States v. Simon Edward Heath and Paul Sau-Ki Cheng
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-09-29· cited 110×
• Wawrykow v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1993-11-24· cited 101×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-26· cited 87×
• Allman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-11-21· cited 85×
• Isaac v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-10-13· cited 72×
• Ruffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-25· cited 70×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-21· cited 60×
• Haymond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-09· cited 50×
• Reining v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-19· cited 47×
• Varvaris v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-02· cited 42×
• Britt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-02· cited 42×
• Campbell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-05-21· cited 40×
• Harden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-03-06· cited 37×
• Alexander v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-02-03· cited 35×