Dunn v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing the defendant’s murder conviction after the solicitor argued that “if [the jury] sent this defendant as an insane man up to Tuscaloosa, the State mental institution, he wouldn’t stay up there more than ten days”
• reversing the defendant’s murder conviction after the solicitor argued that “if [the jury] sent this defendant as an insane man up to Tuscaloosa, the State mental institution, he wouldn’t stay up there more than ten days”
• timely and specific objection needed to invoke the rule in Queen’s case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nobis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-03-31· cited 130×
• Frank J. Underwood, as Administrator of the Estate of Shirley Underwood Dunn, Deceased v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1966-01-26· cited 71×
• Christian v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1977-09-30· cited 69×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-05-03· cited 59×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-05-27· cited 58×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-03-22· cited 57×
• Eaton v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1965-06-30· cited 37×
• Meredith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-02-20· cited 34×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-02-26· cited 33×
• Allred v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-05-03· cited 32×
• Timmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-01-07· cited 31×
• Whisenhant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-02-20· cited 27×
• Jetton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-03-29· cited 22×
• Madison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1975-04-22· cited 22×
• Sales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-07-19· cited 17×
• Grady v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-11-25· cited 15×
• Fike v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-11-29· cited 15×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-07-05· cited 10×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-02-12· cited 7×
• Linson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-02-03· cited 7×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1957-03-14· cited 61×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1956-11-01· cited 30×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1959-02-12· cited 30×