393 So. 2d 504 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 509 So. 2d 252 - Whitlow v. State (1987), Fisher v. State (1991)
30 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 Lego v. Twomey · Johnson v. United States · Arant v. State · Day v. State · 378 So. 2d 1173 - Turner 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[w]e believe that sidebar remarks criticizing, disparaging or vilifying accused's attorney have no place in the trial of any case. Chatom v. State, Ala. Cr.App., 360 So.2d 1068 , cert. denied, Ala., 360 So.2d 1074 (1978); Scroggins v. State, Ala. Cr. App., 341 So.2d 967 (1976), cert. denied, Ala., 341 So.2d 972 (1977); Edgeworth v. State, 54 Ala.App. 93 , 304 So.2d 911 (1974). However, an attack on opposing counsel should be distinguished from a verbal assault on the accused. As the Alabama Supreme Court aptly stated in Arant v. State, 232 Ala. 275 , 167 So. 540 (1936); `[A] trial is a legal battle, a combat in a sense, and not a parlor social affair.' Our court in Hurt v. State, Ala. Cr.App., 361 So.2d 1163, 1166 (1978), quoted from 99 A.L.R.2d 528 (1965): "`"The range of a prosecutor's remarks has an important bearing on the extent of their impropriety. When he confines himself to an attack on opposing counsel personally, his remarks may be censurable but they will not usually be held prejudicial to the accused's right to a fair trial."'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where no single instance of alleged improper conduct constituted reversible error, we do not consider their cumulative effect to be any greater. Sprinkle v. State, 368 So.2d 554 , writ quashed, Ala., 368 So.2d 565 (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. State“`Judge, I think this lawyer needs to have a little lesson in proper evidence'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.