Tolbert 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 due process violation where State destroyed particle of skin which could not have sustained defense theory of the case in context of all the evidence
• finding no due process violation where State destroyed particle of skin which could not have sustained defense theory of the case in context of all the evidence
• finding no due process violation where State destroyed particle of skin which could not have sustained defense theory of the case in context of all the evidence
• “. . . [T]he mere possibility the evidence might aid the defense does not satisfy the constitutional materiality standard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-04-25· cited 406×
• Nixon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-25· cited 322×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 313×
• Eakes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-26· cited 240×
• Leatherwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-19· cited 232×
• Duplantis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-12· cited 147×
• Porter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-04-01· cited 121×
• Nicholson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-16· cited 103×
• Moore v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-04-27· cited 93×
• Manix v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-02-17· cited 87×
• Mitchell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-27· cited 86×
• State v. Davlin
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2002-03-01· cited 82×
• Veal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-07· cited 80×
• Cox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-08-28· cited 77×
• Sewell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 76×
• Johnston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-04-22· cited 70×
• Farris v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-06-08· cited 65×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-02-20· cited 60×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• California v. Trombetta
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-11· cited 3,405×
• Cabello v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-01· cited 348×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-28· cited 325×
• Laney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-10-13· cited 250×
• United States v. Jimmy Dewitt Webster, Sr., Candido Daniel Santiago, Barry Weinreich, Joe Buhajla, Arthur Byron Murphy, and Clarence Royalston
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-01-28· cited 248×
• Agee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1966-04-25· cited 182×
• Odom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-15· cited 120×
• Barnes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-21· cited 85×
• United States v. Manuel Binker, A/K/A Manolo
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-08-05· cited 61×
• United States v. Bobby J. Herndon
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-08-06· cited 55×
• Washington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 44×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1959-05-25· cited 41×
• Pennington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-31· cited 40×
• Norman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-10-28· cited 37×
• Dase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-29· cited 32×
• Hemmingway v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-19· cited 31×
• Barker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-02-06· cited 30×
• Coyne v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-26· cited 28×
• Scott v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-05-17· cited 27×