Peterson 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 this factor weighed in favor of admissibility because the defendant’s prior conviction occurred less than a year before the crime for which he was being tried
• holding that this factor weighed in favor of admissibility because the defendant’s prior conviction occurred less than a year before the crime for which he was being tried
• limiting instruction required stating that jury can only consider defendant's prior convictions for impeachment purposes
• enumerating relevant factors and procedures a trial court must consider before evidence of a defendant’s prior conviction is admitted under Mississippi Rule of Evidence 609
• trial judge should have given limiting instruction sua sponte informing jury that they could consider defendant's prior convictions only for impeachment
• The jury is very likely to infer present guilt from a past conviction for a similar offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bush v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-02-10· cited 1,301×
• Heidel v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 332×
• Hunter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 307×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-14· cited 275×
• Giles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 255×
• Butler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-26· cited 253×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 219×
• Kolberg v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-08· cited 199×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-18· cited 156×
• DeLoach v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-10-08· cited 121×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-05-11· cited 114×
• Moody v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-10-20· cited 102×
• Cooper v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-05-30· cited 97×
• Hall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-09· cited 91×
• Brent v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-17· cited 89×
• Swington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-17· cited 85×
• Adams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-10-19· cited 79×
• Means v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-08-26· cited 72×
• Bass v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-25· cited 69×
• Gayten v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-02-19· cited 69×

Cites

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

• Morris W. Gordon v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-10-27· cited 575×
• Wilcher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-04-25· cited 260×
• Newell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-01-27· cited 242×
• United States v. Otha Lee Mahone
  Seventh Circuit· 1976-07-01· cited 216×
• Harper v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 182×
• House v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-25· cited 121×
• Winters v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-24· cited 100×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Bedford, Warren
  Third Circuit· 1982-02-23· cited 98×
• United States v. Albert Solomon Preston, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-12-20· cited 94×
• Murphy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 78×
• Kelly v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-30· cited 63×
• Edwards v. Thigpen
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 48×
• Guilbeau v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-01-28· cited 42×
• United States v. Demasco Ramon Diaz, A/K/A Pipo
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-11-30· cited 28×
• Barnette v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-30· cited 25×
• Donald v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 24×
• Dorrough v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-31· cited 22×
• Dubose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-10-13· cited 18×
• Rainer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-17· cited 17×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-23· cited 15×