Hurst v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecutor's closing remark that `[t]his man slaughtered him' did not overstep the bounds of fairness and impartiality
• psychologist not permitted to testify concerning what the record of the defendant's past medical history revealed
• failure to instruct that a person who is attacked in his own home does not have a duty to retreat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Henderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-11-16· cited 148×
• Carpenter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-06-30· cited 85×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-09-04· cited 74×
• Ex Parte Wesley
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-09-28· cited 52×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-12-29· cited 32×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-10-02· cited 28×
• Duncan v. City of Birmingham
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-06-17· cited 25×
• Wesley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-12-29· cited 23×
• Ex Parte Deardorff
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2008-10-31· cited 22×
• Brackin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-06-29· cited 22×
• Snider v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-08-24· cited 22×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-08-28· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2009-10-02· cited 20×
• Barksdale v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-03-31· cited 19×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-12-30· cited 14×
• Madison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-04-16· cited 13×
• Vickerstaff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-09-04· cited 8×
• Bowden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-02-24· cited 7×
• Hope v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-10-02· cited 7×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-05-06· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Blackburn v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1960-01-11· cited 1,191×
• Christian v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1977-09-30· cited 69×
• Elrod v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1967-09-14· cited 69×
• Summers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-05-24· cited 67×
• Clark v. Hudson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1956-12-21· cited 63×
• Ashdown v. Utah
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 62×
• Redwine v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1952-11-20· cited 52×
• Balentine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1976-08-24· cited 49×
• Goldin v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1961-01-26· cited 40×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1976-11-17· cited 37×
• State v. Ashdown
  Utah Supreme Court· 1956-04-30· cited 33×
• Carr v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1967-01-24· cited 27×
• State v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1960-01-11· cited 23×
• Prince v. Lowe
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1955-06-23· cited 21×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1976-03-09· cited 17×
• Cordle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1974-04-09· cited 15×
• Hafley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1976-11-23· cited 11×
• Breen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1974-10-29· cited 10×
• Hardin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-03-29· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-07-26· cited 9×