Shields v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the defendant’s conviction where the supreme court found that factors 1, 2, and 4 “lend[ed] strength” to the inference that the defendant was guilty, but “the third factor detract[ed] from the inference”
• “[T]he inference is at its strongest when the defendant wholly fails to make a credible explanation or makes a demonstrably false explanation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. James
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-06-24· cited 236×
• Cox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-07-17· cited 55×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-10-11· cited 33×
• McRee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-11· cited 25×
• Brooks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-05· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-09-25· cited 19×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-03-23· cited 17×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-04-11· cited 14×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-08-09· cited 13×
• Kenneth R. Goldsmith v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-05-17· cited 13×
• Madden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-09-02· cited 10×
• Miles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-11-04· cited 9×
• Presley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-03-18· cited 8×
• Long v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-03-21· cited 8×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-06-18· cited 8×
• Wooten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-02-06· cited 8×
• Wess v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-10-04· cited 7×
• State v. Delaney
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-01-13· cited 7×
• Chaney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-12-18· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-11-25· cited 4×

Cites

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

• Wright v. West
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-19· cited 1,604×
• Barnes v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 793×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 375×
• Ladner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-17· cited 343×
• UHS-Qualicare, Inc. v. GULF COAST COM. HOSP., INC.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-19· cited 250×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1970-04-08· cited 183×
• Earl E. Vick v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1954-10-29· cited 164×
• Murphy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-08-01· cited 103×
• Livingston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-04-27· cited 95×
• Elijah \Tootie Pie\ Cosby, Jr. v. Tom Jones, Warden of the Walker County Correctional Institute
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-08-16· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 68×
• Monroe v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-09· cited 60×
• Premeaux v. Smith
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-10-17· cited 57×
• Mayfield v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-31· cited 46×
• Essie B. Clark v. Raymond K. Procunier, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-03-18· cited 45×
• Frank Robert West, Jr. v. Ellis B. Wright, Jr., Warden Mary Sue Terry, Attorney General of Virginia
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-06-21· cited 35×
• Cook v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-12· cited 32×
• Avery v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-01-10· cited 29×
• McDANIEL BROS. CONSTRUCTION COMPANY v. Jordy
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-03-20· cited 26×
• Rushing v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-12-05· cited 23×