Garner v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, during opening argument, prosecutor must refrain from stating facts which cannot be proved
• holding that, during opening argument, prosecutor must refrain from stating facts which cannot be proved
• noting that appellate courts rarely find error 14 when prosecutor’s statement about “certain proof, which is later rejected, will be offered”
• failure to object, assign misconduct, or request an instruction will preclude review by this court
• failure to object, assign misconduct, or request an instruction will preclude review by this court
• “The purpose of the opening statement is to acquaint the jury and the court with the nature of the case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lord v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-02-07· cited 109×
• Collier v. State of Nevada
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-09-05· cited 90×
• Bean v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1965-01-22· cited 80×
• Rippo v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-10-01· cited 64×
• Rowland v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-01-24· cited 60×
• Sipsas v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1986-03-28· cited 59×
• Ross v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 58×
• Kevin Allen Big Pond v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-01-03· cited 57×
• Lisle v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-04-24· cited 50×
• Walker v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-08-28· cited 50×
• Browne v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-02-26· cited 50×
• Riley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-03-28· cited 45×
• Watters v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2013-11-27· cited 45×
• Pacheco v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1966-05-16· cited 44×
• Tucker v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1966-04-11· cited 43×
• Libby v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-09-09· cited 41×
• Cooper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-03-08· cited 40×
• Whitehead v. Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-04-22· cited 37×
• Hollander v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1966-10-05· cited 34×
• Ligda v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-03-24· cited 34×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Berger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-15· cited 4,581×
• United States v. Antonelli Fireworks Co.
  Second Circuit· 1946-05-02· cited 191×
• People v. Perez
  California Supreme Court· 1962-07-24· cited 159×
• Nester v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1959-01-20· cited 86×
• State v. Lyskoski
  Washington Supreme Court· 1955-08-04· cited 51×
• State v. Boyle
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1926-07-24· cited 34×
• State v. Gulbrandsen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1953-03-13· cited 33×
• State v. Moore
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1925-02-17· cited 27×
• State v. Cyty
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1927-06-14· cited 21×
• Sefton v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1956-04-04· cited 20×
• State v. Kassabian
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1952-04-28· cited 13×
• Kelley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1960-02-05· cited 11×
• Cook v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1961-02-22· cited 10×
• State v. Olivieri
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1925-06-17· cited 8×
• O'BRIANT v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1956-04-02· cited 7×
• State v. Fronhofer
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1915-07-15· cited 6×