White 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 evidence was insufficient to enable a reasonable fact finder to determine that defendant had intent to kill, and thus insufficient to impose death penalty
• holding evidence was insufficient to enable a reasonable fact finder to determine that defendant had intent to kill, and thus insufficient to impose death penalty
• Enmund and Tison are not satisfied in murder case with multiple defendants and no eyewitnesses where all evidence is circumstantial and the actual killer is not clearly identified
• \[A] witness may only be impeached on a statement which embodies `a fact substantive in its nature and relevant to the issue made in the case.'\
• no objection made to prosecutor's comments; therefore, issue not preserved in this capital case
• This court will not set aside a conviction without concluding that the evidence taken in the most favorable light could not have supported a reasonable juror's conclusion that the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• People v. McKinnon
  California Supreme Court· 2011-08-22· cited 543×
• 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×
• 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×
• MacKbee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 336×
• Blue v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-15· cited 332×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Mease v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-01· cited 318×
• Pinkney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 316×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 314×
• Simmons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-13· cited 301×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-27· cited 301×

Cites

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

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Manson v. Brathwaite
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 5,119×
• 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×
• Holland v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-01-31· cited 3,238×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Williams v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-06· cited 2,766×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 1,617×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Wilson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1896-04-27· cited 627×