Simpson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding jury adequately instructed on reasonable doubt when similar instruction offered
• where statement to the police contradicts in material particulars to testimony at trial, defendant not entitled to peremptory instruction
• comment on wife's failure to testify
• photographs of victim not gruesome
• photographs of victim not gruesome

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Willie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 380×
• Shell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-29· cited 276×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 258×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 219×
• Perry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-02· cited 198×
• McNeal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 171×
• Caston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-05-23· cited 149×
• Reynolds v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-04· cited 133×
• Howard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-07-24· cited 116×
• Marks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-31· cited 96×
• Livingston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-04-27· cited 95×
• McGowan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-11· cited 87×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-01-11· cited 78×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-03-04· cited 72×
• Read v. Southern Pine Elec. Power Ass'n
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-12· cited 71×
• Hull v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-19· cited 63×
• Barnes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-08-17· cited 41×
• Wright v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-05· cited 35×
• Holloway v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-09-28· cited 30×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 351×
• Cabello v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-01· cited 348×
• Wilcher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-07-11· cited 261×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-11-16· cited 174×
• Ramseur v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-03-21· cited 59×
• Dozier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-11-25· cited 36×
• Gardner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-09-05· cited 34×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1885-10-15· cited 17×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1908-10-15· cited 16×
• Carter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1911-03-15· cited 14×
• Wideman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-11-16· cited 11×
• Fannie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1911-03-15· cited 11×
• Pittman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-09-28· cited 9×
• White v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-02-18· cited 5×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1962-12-10· cited 4×
• Arnold v. McComb Aero, Ltd.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-10-08· cited 1×