Pennington 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 innuendo that prosecution witness passed polygraph test does not require reversal since the defense failed to timely object
• holding that innuendo that prosecution witness passed polygraph test does not require reversal since the defense failed to timely object
• holding that a question about an officer’s training in the use of the polygraph was innuendo and harmless
• “The taking of a polygraph examination and the results thereof are not admissible in evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-26· cited 289×
• Weatherspoon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 147×
• Pitchford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-06-24· cited 129×
• House v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-25· cited 121×
• Tolbert v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-12· cited 116×
• Mitchell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-27· cited 86×
• Bounds v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-13· cited 75×
• Goodson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-07-11· cited 74×
• Thomas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-03-04· cited 55×
• Garrett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-09-27· cited 48×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-03-09· cited 42×
• Edwards v. Booker
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-07-26· cited 41×
• Barnette v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-30· cited 25×
• Vaughan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-05-13· cited 17×
• Lewis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-02-29· cited 13×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-11-22· cited 283×
• Harrison v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-02-03· cited 33×
• Mattox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1961-03-20· cited 30×
• Yazzie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-01-17· cited 24×
• Nevels v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-12-09· cited 22×
• Hitt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1953-03-23· cited 22×
• Kidd v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-02-21· cited 17×
• Campbell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-03· cited 17×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-01-13· cited 16×
• Ford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-09-15· cited 12×
• Holifield v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-05-25· cited 8×