Stringer v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• vacating a death sentence in view of numerous \near-errors\ which violated a defendant's right to fair trial
• finding that prosecution’s specific questions about the facts of the alleged crime, asked during voir dire and alluded to as an oath in closing argument, had the cumulative effect of denying defendant the right to a fair trial
• vacating a death sentence in view of numerous \near-errors\ which violated a defendant's right to fair trial
• death sentence vacated in view of numerous \near-errors\ which violated defendant's right to a fair trial
• improper voir dire, a defective closing argument and wrongful admission of irrelevant photographs comprised a series of \near-errors\ which \effectively killed any chance that Stringer could receive a fundamentally fair sentencing trial[.]\
• death sentence vacated in view of numerous \near-errors\ which violated defendant's right to a fair trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Franklin v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1988-09-15· cited 852×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-04-25· cited 406×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Willie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 380×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 375×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Balfour v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-25· cited 344×

Cites

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

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• United States v. Young
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-20· cited 4,689×
• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• Ohio v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-02· cited 1,064×
• Bullington v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-04· cited 875×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Arizona v. Rumsey
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-29· cited 589×
• Cabana v. Bullock
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-22· cited 536×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Fuselier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-04-17· cited 366×