Payton 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 trial court did not abuse discretion in refusing to grant continuance when untimely disclosed evidence concerned trivial matters
• finding that the trial court’s failure to grant a continuance was harmless error, in part, because the evidence adequately supported the verdict and because the jury would have convicted the defendant even without the evidence in question
• finding no abuse of discretion when \jurors assured the court and the attorneys that their familiarity with witnesses would not influence their ability to be fair and impartial\
• decisions on Rule 9.04 and motions for continuance are within the trial court’s discretion
• “Public policy requires a finality to litigation.”
• “Public policy requires a finality to litigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Hughes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-03-27· cited 125×
• Harden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-04-21· cited 63×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-04-15· cited 44×
• Mariner Health Care v. Estate of Edwards
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-09-13· cited 39×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-12-13· cited 33×
• Haynes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-06-08· cited 31×
• Hampton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-10-16· cited 29×
• Ben v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-08-28· cited 22×
• Graves v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-04-14· cited 21×
• Roach v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-06-20· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-10-30· cited 17×
• Isom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-05-11· cited 17×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-04-25· cited 15×
• James Wesley Scott v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-06-21· cited 15×
• Wyatt v. City of Pearl
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 13×
• Merchant v. Forest Family Practice Clinic, P.A.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-08-11· cited 13×
• Washington Mutual Finance Group, LLC v. Blackmon
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-02-05· cited 13×
• Flaggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-05-27· cited 12×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-10-11· cited 11×

Cites

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

• Liteky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-03-07· cited 7,016×
• Arizona v. Fulminante
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 6,060×
• Colten v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 1,156×
• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 382×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-01-30· cited 362×
• Pinkney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 316×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 313×
• Hunter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 307×
• Duplantis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-10-27· cited 296×
• Reddix v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-02-13· cited 283×
• Box v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-24· cited 275×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-14· cited 275×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-09-26· cited 269×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-12· cited 261×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-15· cited 255×
• Bredemeier v. Jackson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-27· cited 232×
• Mullins v. Ratcliff
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-25· cited 210×