Neal v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant's confession of two murders in addition to one for which he was charged was admissible because omission of said murders would render confession incoherent
• upholding admission of confession given by defendant with IQ of 60 even though scrutiny was heightened since case involved death penalty
• upholding murder conviction despite trial testimony which revealed that defendant had contemporaneously killed or raped three other victims
• death sentence affirmed where defendant had been institutionalized at young age, had learning and family difficulties, and was not loved or supervised at home
• death sentence affirmed where defendant had been institutionalized at young age, had learning and family difficulties, and was not loved or supervised at home
• death sentence was proportionate where defendant had troubled childhood and was institutionalized at age 10 due to family and learning difficulties and was severely retarded with mental ability of 8-year-old child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McClain v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-10-07· cited 941×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 388×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Brown v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-26· cited 4,589×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Michigan v. Mosley
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-09· cited 2,561×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Screws v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1945-05-07· cited 2,023×
• Gardner v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-22· cited 1,935×
• Fare v. Michael C.
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 1,729×
• Oregon v. Bradshaw
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-23· cited 1,351×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×
• California v. Ramos
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 1,071×