Stewart v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• In context of armed-robbery statute, the sentencing authority of the trial judge limited to a “definite term reasonably expected to be less than life.”
• In context of armed-robbery statute, the sentencing authority of the trial judge limited to a “definite term reasonably expected to be less than life.”
• 75-year sentence amounted to a sentence of life, so that case was remanded for resentencing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Luckett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-06-26· cited 144×
• Payton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-11-06· cited 106×
• Cox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-08-02· cited 77×
• Hobgood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-03-23· cited 76×
• Gaskin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-04-22· cited 69×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-06-16· cited 65×
• Lindsay v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-13· cited 58×
• Randy Charles Wilson v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-06-23· cited 57×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-02-09· cited 52×
• United States v. Russell \Rusty\ Prevatte and Robert A. Soy
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-09-14· cited 51×
• Eric James Foster v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-10-16· cited 48×
• DeBussi v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-08· cited 34×
• Kennedy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-10-21· cited 31×
• Wilson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-12-03· cited 30×
• Hampton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-10-16· cited 29×
• Friday v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-09· cited 27×
• Charles Bester v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-04-14· cited 26×
• Woods v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-01-14· cited 23×
• Henderson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-07-22· cited 22×
• Allen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-21· cited 20×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-12-08· cited 44×
• Bullock v. HARPOLE, S. ST. PENITENTIARY
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1958-05-12· cited 25×
• McAdory v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-01-25· cited 13×
• Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. Scott
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-04-04· cited 1×