350 So. 2d 760 - Liner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2009
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Braunfeld v. Gibbons · Shadle v. State · Smith v. State · Seals v. State · Stephens v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In closing argument the district attorney referred to the appellant as a `rattlesnake' and a `viper' who sucks the blood from the youth of our country before they can reach maturity. While this argument was highly improper, Cassady v. State, 51 Ala.App. 544 , 287 So.2d 254 (1973), it is not reversible error. The trial court sustained appellant's objection to this type of argument and instructed the jury on what they were to consider. His motion for mistrial was overruled. As was noted in Cassady, supra, 51 Ala. App. 547 , 287 So.2d 257 : "`Had appellant thought that more corrective measures were necessary, it was incumbent upon him to move the court to exclude this remark from the jury's consideration. In the absence of such a motion, the question is not properly presented for revision. McGrew v. State, 21 Ala.App. 266 , 107 So. 328 ; Stephens v. State, 250 Ala. 123 , 33 So.2d 245 .'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Liberal rules are allowed *Page 1073 counsel in drawing inferences from the evidence in their argument to the jury, whether they are truly drawn or not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While in argument to the jury counsel may not argue as a fact that which is not in evidence, nevertheless, he may state or comment on proper inferences from the evidence and may draw conclusions from the evidence based upon his own reasoning. Liner v. State , 350 So.2d 760 , 763 (Ala.Crim.App. 1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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