Wood v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that consideration of inappropriate cross-examination by the State was not barred by defendant’s failure to object
• held improper to attack witness using immorality of previous life

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Lester v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-07· cited 278×
• De La Beckwith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-22· cited 151×
• Acevedo v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-04-10· cited 71×
• Hickson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 65×
• Randy Charles Wilson v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-06-23· cited 57×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-09-12· cited 39×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-24· cited 37×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-03-24· cited 35×
• Tudor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-09-03· cited 28×
• Hughes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 26×
• McDonald v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-11-05· cited 25×
• Mickell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-25· cited 23×
• Voyles v. Watkins
  N.D. Mississippi· 1980-05-13· cited 18×
• Carter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-24· cited 15×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-03-23· cited 15×
• Tapp v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-08-08· cited 8×
• Herring v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-16· cited 7×
• Keys v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-05-01· cited 5×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,075×
• Lisenba v. California
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-02· cited 1,400×
• Price v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-15· cited 784×
• People v. Henderson
  California Supreme Court· 1963-11-19· cited 345×
• Brooks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1950-05-08· cited 75×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1881-04-15· cited 24×
• Barlow v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-03-30· cited 16×
• Joseph Levine v. Courtland C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1971-07-02· cited 13×
• Johns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1971-12-06· cited 10×
• Mackmasters v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1902-10-15· cited 9×
• Anonymous
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1859-04-15· cited 5×