Shelton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]n Culberson we merely suggested that trial judges inquire into whether or not the defendant desired to testify, and while that suggestion was certainly strong, it was not mandatory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Willie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 380×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-25· cited 374×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Lester v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-07· cited 278×
• Houston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-09-07· cited 262×
• Doss v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 230×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-04· cited 202×
• Harper v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 182×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-17· cited 180×
• Conley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-19· cited 154×
• Jaco v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 115×
• State v. Wright
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-04-14· cited 92×
• Goodson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-07-11· cited 74×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-03-04· cited 72×
• Gibson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-18· cited 57×
• Baine v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-10· cited 52×
• Hicks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-05-22· cited 45×
• Cummins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-04· cited 45×
• Brock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-03· cited 44×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Culberson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-04-21· cited 78×
• Pittman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-07-15· cited 70×
• Baker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-02-10· cited 61×
• Bayse v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-09-29· cited 33×
• Aldridge v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-05-27· cited 26×
• Goss v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-19· cited 16×
• Warren v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-03-07· cited 15×
• Gardner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-03-07· cited 14×
• Wilkinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1900-03-15· cited 10×
• Strickland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-04-29· cited 8×
• Readus v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-01-29· cited 6×
• Sherrod v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1907-03-15· cited 2×