Weatherspoon v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[t]he power to grant a new trial should be invoked only in exceptional cases in which the evidence preponderates heavily against the verdict.” (Internal quotation marks omitted
• “Weatherspoon does not contest the legal sufficiency of the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Burdette v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-03-28· cited 31×
• Cotton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-06-19· cited 30×
• Waits v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-08-15· cited 12×
• Weeks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-08-22· cited 8×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-01-24· cited 4×
• McLymont v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-05-23· cited 2×
• Hopkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-05-01· cited 2×
• Derrick Arthur Burdette v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-03-01
• Marcus O'Neal Flowers v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-04-13
• Malcolm Clifton Weeks v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-04-20
• David Waits v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-02-08
• Gregory Stalling Hopkins v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-01-27
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-10-29
• Bradshaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-12-10
• Courtney L. Rainey v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2022-03-10
• Courtney L. Rainey v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2021-03-16

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Herring v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-13· cited 498×
• Amiker v. Drugs for Less, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-08-17· cited 279×
• Pierre v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-29· cited 80×
• Jordan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-10-02· cited 58×
• Brown v. Denson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2004-06-25· cited 30×
• Byrd v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-23· cited 29×
• Russell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-10-01· cited 18×