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.

• mentions that defendant allowed to make unsworn statement to jury, no discussion regarding source of right
• prosecutor extensively questioned a witness on the amount of time he would serve with a life sentence
• case was originally affirmed in this Court but on remand from U. S. Supreme Court, case was remanded by this Court for a new sentencing hearing
• case was originally affirmed in this Court but on remand from U. S. Supreme Court, case was remanded by this Court for a new sentencing hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• State v. Jenkins
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1984-12-17· cited 1,098×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Sawyer v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 646×
• State v. Stephenson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-05-09· cited 598×
• Cabana v. Bullock
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-22· cited 536×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• 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×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• McFee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 451×
• 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×

Cites

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

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• 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×
• Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional Complex
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 3,299×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Gardner v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-22· cited 1,935×
• California v. Ramos
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 1,071×
• John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-08-21· cited 403×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-01-30· cited 362×
• Bullock v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-08-06· cited 361×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-12-19· cited 336×
• Irving v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-08-02· cited 331×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-05· cited 327×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-05-24· cited 326×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-11-03· cited 310×
• Hill v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-05-04· cited 307×
• Voyles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-09-20· cited 283×
• Caldwell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-11-16· cited 277×