Ruffin 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 held that the trial court committed reversible error by refusing the submitted instructions on lesser included offense of manslaughter.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• MacKbee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 336×
• Mease v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-01· cited 318×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 255×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Fairchild v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 201×
• Perry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-02· cited 198×
• Collins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-01-30· cited 191×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 182×
• Harper v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 182×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-17· cited 180×
• Harveston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-08-20· cited 164×
• Ormond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-04-15· cited 162×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 146×
• Porter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-04-01· cited 121×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 116×
• Mangum v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-06-29· cited 107×
• Welch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-03-14· cited 101×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-26· cited 87×
• McGowan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-03-22· cited 85×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-05· cited 327×
• Pittman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-07-15· cited 70×
• Norman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-05-21· cited 66×
• Presley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-11-03· cited 32×
• Dase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-29· cited 32×
• Grace v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-10-03· cited 17×
• Hammock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-01-30· cited 8×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1922-09-15· cited 7×
• Echols v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1915-10-15· cited 3×
• Whitten v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-25· cited 1×