515 So. 2d 721 - Cason v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 1990
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Espey v. State · 358 So. 2d 782 - Van Antwerp v. State · Brothers v. State · Ex Parte Van Antwerp · 34 Ala. App. 188 - York 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The prosecutor has a right to comment on and answer statements made by defense counsel in argument to the jury. Dollar v. State , 26 Ala. App. 361 , 159 So. 704 (1935); Moragne v. State , 16 Ala. App. 26 , 28 , 74 So. 862 , 864 , reversed on other grounds, 200 Ala. 689 , 77 So. 322 (1917). Counsel should be afforded wide latitude in responding to assertions made by opposing counsel in previous argument. York v. State , 34 Ala. App. 188 , 190 , 39 So.2d 694 , 696 (1948), cert. denied, 252 Ala. 158 , 39 So.2d 697 (1949). 'Wide latitude is given the solicitor in making reply to argument previously made by appellant's counsel.' Moody v. State , 40 Ala. App. 373 , 374 , 113 So.2d 787 , 788 (1959). '[W]ide latitude is given a district attorney in making reply in kind, . . . and the propriety of argument of counsel is largely within the trial court's discretion.' Jetton v. State , 435 So.2d 167 , 171 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983)."”
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.