Jackson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that prosecution's personal attacks upon defense counsel during final argument were grossly improper and denied defendant his fundamental right to a fair trial
• noting that calling opposing counsel a “cheap shot artist” is improper
• reversing for new trial based upon multiple personal attacks on defense counsel, culminating in prosecutor asking jury rhetorically: “Would you buy a used car from this guy?”
• prosecutor improperly attacked defense counsel by asking jury if it would buy a used car from him and by calling him a \`cheap shot artist'\
• “Would you buy a used car from this guy, ladies and gentlemen of the jury?”
• prosecution's personal attacks upon defense counsel were utterly and grossly improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• State v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-12· cited 147×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-16· cited 128×
• Edwards v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-03-22· cited 35×
• Redish v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-05-04· cited 33×
• Yates v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-03-31· cited 29×
• Rosso v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-04-14· cited 28×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-03-22· cited 22×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-05-20· cited 21×
• D'Ambrosio v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-28· cited 21×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-12-28· cited 18×
• Hines v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-12-28· cited 13×
• Palazon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-04-15· cited 13×
• Del Rio v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-02-03· cited 12×
• Fryer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-05-14· cited 12×
• Caraballo v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-06-09· cited 12×
• Rowell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-05-24· cited 12×
• Crew v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-29· cited 12×
• Hall v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-01-17· cited 11×
• Johnnides v. Amoco Oil Co., Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-02-14· cited 11×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Gaetano Modica
  Second Circuit· 1981-10-30· cited 288×
• Pait v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-11· cited 83×
• Peterson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-12-05· cited 53×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1967-02-01· cited 36×
• McMillian v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-02-02· cited 20×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1966-12-14· cited 19×
• Kindell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-05-18· cited 19×
• Harris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-04-27· cited 18×
• Gomez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-06-22· cited 17×
• Porter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-07-01· cited 17×
• Reed v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-06-23· cited 16×
• Glassman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-11-13· cited 15×
• Harper v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-02-23· cited 15×
• Chapman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-07-13· cited 14×
• Price v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-09-26· cited 13×
• Carter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-03-15· cited 8×
• Ruiz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-02-24· cited 5×