Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where nudity, in the totality of the circumstances, was an indicator of rape despite the victim’s inability to communicate anything directly to the court
• because of defendant’s lack of objection to comments in closing argument, the issue was procedurally barred and need not be considered
• absence of foreman’s signature procedural defect waived by defendant’s failure to demur to indictment
• our law presumes that the jury does as it is told
• our law presumes that the jury does as it is told

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Fleming v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-17· cited 292×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-05-09· cited 275×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 193×
• Jefferson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-22· cited 174×
• Randolph v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-01-10· cited 86×
• Dennis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-10-25· cited 85×
• Derouen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-11-20· cited 73×
• Middlebrook v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-01-10· cited 55×
• Box v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-10· cited 54×
• Harrison v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-12· cited 46×
• Blakeney v. Commissioner of Correction
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1998-02-03· cited 45×
• Grayson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 34×
• Swann v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-07· cited 32×
• Holmes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-05-11· cited 32×
• Scott v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 26×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-04-02· cited 26×
• Miley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-08-10· cited 21×
• Whitlock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-09-16· cited 19×
• Barnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-03-28· cited 18×

Cites

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

• Groseclose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-10-12· cited 463×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-08· cited 354×
• Pearson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-09· cited 149×
• Lee v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-19· cited 82×
• Newburn v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-12-11· cited 74×
• Clanton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-06-05· cited 52×
• Holifield v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-03-26· cited 46×
• Horne v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-05-07· cited 45×
• Fondren, Alias Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1965-05-31· cited 43×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-28· cited 37×
• Moore v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 36×
• Shoemaker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-18· cited 32×
• Thames v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1954-06-14· cited 32×
• Winston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-30· cited 29×
• Ragland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-09-09· cited 24×
• Spiers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1957-05-06· cited 23×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 22×
• Butler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-12-23· cited 19×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1952-05-12· cited 17×
• Murray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 14×