Ward v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the defendant could not establish prejudice where “overwhelming evidence” established that he was “hopelessly guilty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moawad v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-09-14· cited 94×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-11-09· cited 91×
• Wilcher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-30· cited 85×
• McCarty v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-12-06· cited 75×
• Burney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-18· cited 72×
• Thomas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-03-04· cited 55×
• Caldwell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-12-18· cited 48×
• Richmond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 43×
• Alexander v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-18· cited 38×
• Dufour v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-12-18· cited 33×
• Presley v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1988-04-15· cited 33×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-30· cited 27×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-05-14· cited 18×
• Dixon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 17×
• Thomas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-08-07· cited 15×
• Hales v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-05-18· cited 11×
• Brock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-12· cited 6×
• Fair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-03-06· cited 3×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-03-29· cited 2×
• Pearson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-04-20· cited 1×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Ohio v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-02· cited 1,064×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Read v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 371×
• Booker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 264×
• Mason v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-11-09· cited 108×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-30· cited 37×
• Stinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-12-14· cited 31×
• Friday v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-09· cited 27×
• Thames v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-07-25· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-16· cited 21×
• Frost v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-07-25· cited 18×
• Bennett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-16· cited 13×
• Meyer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-03-03· cited 12×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-06-01· cited 11×