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.

• prosecutor's comments that defense counsel stated that, “‘We decided not to put the [d]efendant on the stand for trial strategy.’ Could any of you possibly have a doubt?” and other similar comments amounted to a comment on the defendant's failure to take the stand

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• 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×
• Hoops v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-22· cited 454×
• 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×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 380×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 375×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 351×
• Balfour v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-25· cited 344×
• Blue v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-15· cited 332×
• Nixon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-25· cited 322×
• Williamson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-12· cited 321×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Pinkney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 316×

Cites

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

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Malloy v. Hogan
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 3,675×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-08-21· cited 403×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-12-19· cited 336×
• Irving v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-08-02· cited 331×
• Leatherwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-17· cited 309×
• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-04-14· cited 269×
• Booker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 264×
• Laney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-10-13· cited 250×
• John Eldon Smith, or Anthony Isalldo MacHetti v. Charles Balkcom, Warden, Georgia State Prison
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-11-02· cited 198×
• Grigsby v. Mabry
  E.D. Arkansas· 1983-08-05· cited 121×
• Woodard v. Hutchins
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-13· cited 109×
• People v. Stout
  California Supreme Court· 1967-03-16· cited 91×
• James Lee Spencer v. Walter D. Zant, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-12-13· cited 82×
• Hubbard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-14· cited 75×
• Forrest v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-08-03· cited 71×