West v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• killing occurred while defendant and his accomplice were robbing victim of his vehicle, although the vehicle was not taken until victim was dead
• “[I]f the jury knows that the [defendant] is already under a sentence of death it would tend to relieve them of their separate responsibility to make that determination.”
• \[I]f the jury knows that the [defendant] is already under a sentence of death it would tend to relieve them of their separate responsibility to make that determination.\
• “The general rule is that redirect is limited to matters brought out on cross-examination.”
• “If the intervening time between the time of the murder and the time of taking of the property formed a continuous chain of events, the fact that she was dead when he took the property could not absolve the defendant from the crime of robbery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Romano v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-13· cited 591×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-12· cited 460×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Blue v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-15· cited 332×
• Nixon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-25· cited 322×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×

Cites

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

• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-05· cited 327×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-05-24· cited 326×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-09-22· cited 301×
• Voyles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-09-20· cited 283×
• Wiley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-04· cited 274×
• Tokman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-06-01· cited 262×
• Seath v. Regulations & Permits Administration
  Supreme Court· 1983-08-23· cited 251×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-11-16· cited 174×
• Cobern v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1962-04-05· cited 122×
• Oates v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-11-03· cited 95×
• Jimmy Lee Gray v. Eddie Lucas and the State of Mississippi
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-07-15· cited 70×
• Mason v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-30· cited 59×
• Tucker v. Tucker
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1896-03-15· cited 52×
• People v. Jordan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1922-06-21· cited 47×
• Speagle v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-11-26· cited 44×
• Hall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 43×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1889-04-15· cited 39×