Wells 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 that a lay witness’s narration testimony was improper 42 because he did not have “first-hand knowledge of the events depicted on the tape”
• \If particular knowledge ... is necessary to assist the trier of fact ... then such testimony would never qualify as a lay witness opinion under M.R.E. 701\
• \[I]f particular knowledge ... is necessary to assist the trier of fact ... then such testimony would never qualify as a lay witness opinion under M.R.E. 701.\
• \If particular knowledge ... is necessary to assist the trier of fact ... then such testimony would never qualify as a lay witness opinion under M.R.E. 701\
• \[I]f particular knowledge ... is necessary to assist the trier of fact ... then such testimony would never qualify as a lay witness opinion under M.R.E. 701.\
• \If particular knowledge ... is necessary to assist the trier of fact ... then such testimony would never qualify as a lay witness opinion under M.R.E. 701\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-15· cited 255×
• Watts v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-28· cited 232×
• Hughes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-31· cited 231×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 219×
• Burns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-19· cited 209×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-08-02· cited 98×
• White v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-24· cited 86×
• Sentinel Industrial Contracting Corp. v. Kimmins Industrial Service Corp.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-07-29· cited 79×
• Cotton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-05-09· cited 74×
• Mississippi Dept. of Transp. v. Cargile
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-05-29· cited 72×
• Shaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-08-04· cited 67×
• Bower v. Bower
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-04-06· cited 67×
• Sample v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-09-29· cited 67×
• Roberts v. Grafe Auto Co., Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-26· cited 63×
• K-Mart Corp. v. Hardy Ex Rel. Hardy
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-18· cited 61×
• Seal v. Miller
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-22· cited 57×
• Gilley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-09-30· cited 49×
• Nalls v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-03-09· cited 48×
• Palmer v. Volkswagen of America, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-04-07· cited 33×
• Couch v. CITY OF D'IBERVILLE, MISS.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 32×

Cites

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

• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 388×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-04· cited 202×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 116×
• Doby v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-12· cited 93×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-11-09· cited 91×
• Morris v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-07· cited 85×
• Clark v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 74×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-03-04· cited 72×
• Kelly v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-01-30· cited 63×
• Gibson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-18· cited 57×
• Whittington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-16· cited 48×
• Robinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-05-11· cited 47×
• Rose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-07· cited 43×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-19· cited 38×
• Grady v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-02-26· cited 29×
• Roberson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-10-24· cited 26×
• Redmond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-10-17· cited 19×
• Whitley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-12· cited 18×
• Giles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-01-14· cited 15×
• Barham v. Nowell
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1962-03-05· cited 12×