Ex Parte Wilson

How courts have described this case

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

• improper comments on defendant's failure to testify are not cause for reversal \if the trial court sustains an objection to [the] improper remarks and promptly and appropriately instructs the jury of the impropriety of those remarks\
• 'In a case where there has been a direct reference to a defendant's failure to testify and the trial court has not acted promptly to cure that comment, the conviction must be reversed.'
• 'In a case where there has been a direct reference to a defendant's failure to testify and the trial court has not acted promptly to cure that comment, the conviction must be reversed.'

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bush v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-03-08· cited 196×
• Coral v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-03-27· cited 196×
• Ex Parte Loggins
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2000-06-02· cited 142×
• Ex Parte McWilliams
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-01-29· cited 134×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-02-04· cited 118×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-03-06· cited 117×
• Broadnax v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-12-01· cited 114×
• Ex Parte Brooks
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1997-04-25· cited 109×
• Kennedy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-09-03· cited 97×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-05-08· cited 97×
• DeBruce v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-03-05· cited 92×
• Dobyne v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-04-15· cited 86×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-06-30· cited 85×
• Ex Parte Clark
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1998-05-15· cited 77×
• Hutcherson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-08-19· cited 73×
• Minor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2004-08-27· cited 68×
• Ex Parte Tucker
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1995-05-12· cited 66×
• McWhorter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-08-27· cited 66×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-02-25· cited 64×
• Loggins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-04-30· cited 63×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• North Carolina v. Butler
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-24· cited 2,172×
• Baxter v. Palmigiano
  Supreme Court· 1976-04-20· cited 2,133×
• Estelle v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 2,053×
• United States v. Hasting
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-23· cited 1,999×
• Oregon v. Bradshaw
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-23· cited 1,351×
• Nix v. Whiteside
  Supreme Court· 1986-02-26· cited 983×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 647×
• Wainwright v. Torna
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-22· cited 561×
• Lakeside v. Oregon
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-22· cited 380×
• Marsden v. Moore
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-06-28· cited 321×
• Duncan v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1965-06-30· cited 230×
• Watson v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-14· cited 174×
• United States v. James Norton, United States of America v. Paul Fosco, James Pinckard, Paul A. Di Franco, James Norton, Defendants
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-03-16· cited 153×