Nichols v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• This Court employs the Eighth Amendment proportionality analysis “only when a threshold comparison of the crime committed to the sentence imposed leads to an inference of ‘gross disproportionality.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hughes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-03-27· cited 125×
• Tate v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-24· cited 124×
• Price v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-02-24· cited 123×
• Mingo v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-12-07· cited 67×
• Thomas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-09-23· cited 56×
• James McCoy v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-09-18· cited 31×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-03-01· cited 22×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-03-04· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-11-14· cited 16×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-07-22· cited 13×
• Tate v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-04-04· cited 12×
• Pittman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-11-02· cited 11×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-11-14· cited 11×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-10-11· cited 11×
• Beamon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-04-02· cited 8×
• Chapell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-06-19· cited 8×
• Parisi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-11-13· cited 8×
• Kleckner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-05-22· cited 7×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-03-04· cited 6×
• Sims v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-03-20· cited 6×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Hoops v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-22· cited 454×
• Fleming v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-17· cited 292×
• Young v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 152×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-06· cited 128×
• Wall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 107×
• Barnwell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-08-22· cited 63×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-19· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-11-21· cited 24×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-05-06· cited 16×