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.

• holding that when it is obvious from the record what the true conviction is for, and that the error in the judgment is merely clerical, the error does not require that the judgment be set aside
• trivial errors do not require reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 193×
• Haddox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-16· cited 93×
• Petti v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-30· cited 49×
• State v. Woods
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 38×
• Rochell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-09-23· cited 28×
• Pittman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-11-02· cited 11×
• Fields v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-03-18· cited 8×
• Buggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-04-20· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1998-11-24· cited 6×
• Henry Lawson v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-01-13· cited 4×
• Kerns v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-04-05· cited 3×
• Chester v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-07-20· cited 3×
• Gyrone Marcell McSwain v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-10-28· cited 2×
• Benitez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-05-20· cited 2×
• Holbrook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-01-13· cited 2×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-04-06· cited 1×
• Willie Jerome Manning v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-11-08
• Donald Ray King v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-10
• Arvin Dale Rochell v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-10-01
• Kenneth W. Chester v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-01-12

Cites

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

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 313×
• Bevill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-01-24· cited 251×
• Carney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-04-13· cited 139×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-07-13· cited 94×
• Hester v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-02-13· cited 71×
• Pool v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-05· cited 60×
• Rooks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-11· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Truax
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-03-25· cited 33×
• State v. McColgan
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-12-31· cited 15×
• Harper v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-03-12· cited 14×
• L. J. Alford Lumber Co. v. Ragland
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1913-10-15· cited 14×
• Hickson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-02· cited 13×
• Hamilton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-01-17· cited 12×
• Daniel v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Bass
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-09-03· cited 11×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-06-01· cited 11×
• Flurry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 4×