Thornton 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 no abuse of discretion in the trial court's issuance of a supplemental instruction after the jury's deliberations had begun
• finding the court ruled that allowing the jury to deliberate for eight hours, coupled with the judge providing supplemental jury instructions after the jurors’ request, did not constitute coercion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-04-29· cited 5×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-09-06· cited 1×
• Houston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-09-27· cited 1×
• Joshua Zachery Devon Oats a/k/a Joshua Oats v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-12-09
• Derrick Wayne Chavers a/k/a Derrick Chavers v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-11-04

Cites

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

• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• Idaho v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-27· cited 2,081×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-04· cited 202×
• Westbrook v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-29· cited 133×
• Sharplin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-04-20· cited 128×
• Terrain Enterprises, Inc. v. Mockbee
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-04-13· cited 122×
• Shearer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-12-15· cited 117×
• Duckworth v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-08-07· cited 85×
• Hooten v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-05-07· cited 58×
• In Re Estate of Mask
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-22· cited 50×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 49×
• Graves v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-07-09· cited 45×
• Herring v. Poirrier
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-07-27· cited 42×
• Ragan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-09-22· cited 37×
• Rogers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 34×
• Stallworth v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-03-08· cited 32×
• Isom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-12-11· cited 26×
• Earl v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-04-18· cited 24×
• Mickell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-25· cited 23×
• Francis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-08-07· cited 17×