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.

• recognizing power of trial court in capital case to rule against death penalty via judgment notwithstanding the verdict
• superseded by statute on other grounds, see Hosford v. State, 560 So. 2d 163, 167 (Miss. 1990)
• adoption of tender years hearsay rule prior to enacting rules of evidence
• jury presumed to follow court's instruction to disregard hearsay
• twelve-hour delay — first reasonable opportunity to complain
• twelve-hour delay — first reasonable opportunity to complain

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Abram v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-29· cited 286×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-04-16· cited 277×
• Houston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-09-07· cited 262×
• Leatherwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-19· cited 232×
• Dycus v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-10· cited 228×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-11-20· cited 136×
• Payton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-11-06· cited 106×
• Boches v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-04-29· cited 96×
• Doby v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-12· cited 93×
• Mitchell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-27· cited 86×
• Goodson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-07-11· cited 74×
• Baine v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-12· cited 71×
• Kinzey v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-11-19· cited 64×
• Veasley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-04-22· cited 62×
• Pham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-07-02· cited 53×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Haber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-11· cited 44×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-09-12· cited 39×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-02-23· cited 35×
• Hosford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-03-21· cited 32×

Cites

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

• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Reynolds v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1879-01-18· cited 1,827×
• United States v. DiFrancesco
  Supreme Court· 1980-12-09· cited 1,657×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×
• Chaffin v. Stynchcombe
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-21· cited 874×
• Bozza v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1947-02-17· cited 614×
• United States v. Benz
  Supreme Court· 1931-01-05· cited 503×
• Stroud v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1919-11-24· cited 398×
• Gathright v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-03-12· cited 199×
• Murphy v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1900-03-01· cited 135×
• King v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1938-05-16· cited 127×
• Stewart v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-05-02· cited 69×
• People v. Mikula
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1978-04-20· cited 59×
• McLelland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-11-20· cited 52×
• Brooks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1971-01-04· cited 50×
• De Benque v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1936-05-11· cited 49×
• Upshaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-10-26· cited 46×
• Gerald Henry Irving, Jr. v. C. E. Breazeale, Superintendent of Mississippi State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-08-27· cited 45×