Scott v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing when excusable-homicide instruction granted to the State completely failed to mention accident, misfortune, the heat of passion, or any sudden and sufficient provocation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-05-27· cited 178×
• Milano v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 170×
• De La Beckwith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-22· cited 151×
• Hunt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-08· cited 115×
• Montana v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-07-25· cited 115×
• Livingston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-04-27· cited 95×
• Windham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-12· cited 84×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-10· cited 54×
• Graves v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-07-09· cited 45×
• Haynes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 41×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-08-11· cited 35×
• Holloway v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-09-28· cited 30×
• James Douglas Willie v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-12-08· cited 30×
• Tigner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-02· cited 26×
• Holmes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-01-29· cited 21×
• State v. Babich
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-01-12· cited 20×
• James John Rodgers v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-11-18· cited 19×
• Barnes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-10-31· cited 13×
• Cobb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-01-26· cited 13×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Robinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-05-18· cited 72×
• Pittman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-07-15· cited 70×
• Shinall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 47×
• John W. Young v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-01-09· cited 16×
• Ingram v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1884-10-15· cited 10×