Stevenson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• Mississippi's mandatory death penalty statuted judicially converted to guided-discretion statute to conform to Eighth Amendment strictures

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Irving v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-08-02· cited 331×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-11-22· cited 283×
• Booker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 264×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-10-05· cited 242×
• Shearer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-12-15· cited 117×
• Richard Gerald Jordan v. John C. Watkins, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-08-06· cited 101×
• Robinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-05-18· cited 72×
• Cumbest v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-16· cited 41×
• Hill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-12-07· cited 35×
• Stevenson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-31· cited 27×
• Irving v. Hargett
  N.D. Mississippi· 1981-07-24· cited 25×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 20×
• Alford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 19×
• Jones by Jones v. Harris
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-14· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2009-12-15· cited 16×
• Porter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-11-23· cited 7×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Taylor v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1975-01-21· cited 2,446×
• Oyler v. Boles
  Supreme Court· 1962-02-19· cited 1,736×
• Newman v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-07-31· cited 212×
• United States v. William Steele
  Ninth Circuit· 1972-08-09· cited 153×
• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-12-21· cited 35×
• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-11-06· cited 32×
• Robinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1955-01-17· cited 24×
• Myers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1971-11-29· cited 22×
• McGinnis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1961-10-02· cited 20×
• Klyce v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1901-10-15· cited 8×