Smallwood v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding a 50-year sentence for a non-violent recidivist only after noting that the defendant would be eligible for parole within 12 years
• fifty-year sentence under recidivist statute for stealing $27.64 in meat not grossly disproportionate based on defendant’s criminal history
• mere conclusory allegations do not raise a constitutional issue in a habeas proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hoops v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-22· cited 454×
• Norman Evans Green v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-11-11· cited 188×
• Young v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 152×
• United States v. Gonzales
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-08-26· cited 151×
• Wottlin v. Fleming
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-03-23· cited 95×
• White v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-24· cited 86×
• United States v. Joseph Corona, III Lindsey McDonald
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-04-07· cited 70×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 69×
• Leandro Andrade v. Attorney General of the State of California Ernest B. Roe, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-11-02· cited 58×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-03-12· cited 51×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-21· cited 33×
• Kevin R. McCloud v. Jodine Deppisch
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-06-02· cited 30×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-11-21· cited 24×
• Rice v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-03-20· cited 23×
• Whitlock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-09-16· cited 19×
• Cordova v. Johnson
  W.D. Texas· 1998-02-04· cited 16×
• Wade v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-20· cited 15×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-05-09· cited 13×
• Long v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-05-06· cited 12×
• Freshwater v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-08-21· cited 9×

Cites

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

• Brecht v. Abrahamson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 7,022×
• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Bordenkircher v. Hayes
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-06· cited 2,683×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Rummel v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-18· cited 2,234×
• Michelson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-02-14· cited 1,808×
• United States v. Batchelder
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,568×
• Spencer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1966-11-21· cited 1,416×
• Robert McGruder v. Steven W. Puckett
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-02-27· cited 696×
• Leon Ross, Jr. v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-01-03· cited 321×
• Chester Lee Wicker v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-08-23· cited 102×
• United States v. McCarty
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-10-20· cited 96×
• Gant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-17· cited 91×
• Brennan v. Stewart
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-01-07· cited 90×
• Jimmy D. Pemberton v. James Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-05-27· cited 63×
• Rawlings v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-16· cited 60×
• Ferguson v. Estelle
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-10-31· cited 50×
• Duvall v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1986-11-03· cited 49×

Other cases named Smallwood v. Johnson

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Smallwood v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1996-10-07