Burgess v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• no error occurs by capital defendant's absence from noncritical stages of trial if his presence would not have benefitted his defense
• Burgess's absence from two pretrial motion hearings, an in-chambers discussion with counsel and the victim's family during voir dire, and an in-chambers discussion with counsel about suspending Burgess's telephone privileges was not reversible error
• gruesome photos of crime scene admissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-10-01· cited 155×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-02-04· cited 118×
• Broadnax v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-12-01· cited 114×
• Stallworth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-01-31· cited 103×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-03-31· cited 91×
• Melson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-03-26· cited 90×
• Maples v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-03-26· cited 89×
• Ex Parte Burgess
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1998-08-28· cited 86×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-04-28· cited 86×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-08-27· cited 84×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-05-30· cited 83×
• Ferguson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-06-30· cited 80×
• Ex Parte Walker
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-03-30· cited 78×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-05-26· cited 74×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-06-27· cited 68×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-04-30· cited 67×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-11-02· cited 64×
• Loggins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-04-30· cited 63×
• Irvin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-06-24· cited 61×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-06-27· cited 61×

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Murray v. Carrier
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 7,499×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Tuilaepa v. California
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-30· cited 983×
• Ex Parte Branch
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-12-04· cited 578×
• Peters v. Kiff
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 533×
• Beck v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1981-03-06· cited 434×
• Arave v. Creech
  Supreme Court· 1993-03-30· cited 361×
• Kuenzel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-06-29· cited 336×
• Danial Siebert v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-28· cited 310×
• Harris v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1995-02-22· cited 290×
• Ex Parte Kuenzel
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-01-11· cited 282×
• Edmonds v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 261×