James v. People

How courts have described this case

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

• “Accordingly, the trial court’s rejection of the statement and subsequent curative instruction were sufficient to cure the inadmissible statement of the witness.”
• “The purpose of closing argument is to mold the facts given during trial in the light most favorable to one’s client.”
• “[T]he cardinal rule of closing argument [is] that counsel must confine comments to evidence in the record and to reasonable inferences from that evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Ponce
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-06-25· cited 1×
• Frett v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-02-22· cited 1×
• Mosler v. Gerace
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2024-01-03
• Rouse v. People of the Virgin Islands
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2024-01-17
• Alfred Greenaway v. Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority, Industrial Automation, Inc.
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 1800-01-01

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Berger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-15· cited 4,581×
• Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 3,922×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• Kastigar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 2,510×
• Hoffman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-05-28· cited 1,874×
• United States v. Scheffer
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-31· cited 1,617×
• Zicarelli v. New Jersey State Commission of Investigation
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-22· cited 347×
• United States v. Taylor
  First Circuit· 1995-05-17· cited 264×
• Marshall v. Hendricks
  Third Circuit· 2002-09-11· cited 215×
• United States v. Nicholas A. Stirone
  Third Circuit· 1959-01-27· cited 134×
• United States v. Lopez-Medina
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-02-19· cited 107×
• United States v. Marsha Dobson
  Third Circuit· 2005-08-16· cited 95×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Williams, Frederico, in No. 83-3480 v. Ayala, Jorge, in No. 83-3481 v. Guadalupe, Leocadio, in No. 83-3501
  Third Circuit· 1984-07-24· cited 70×
• United States v. William White
  Second Circuit· 1973-10-11· cited 69×
• United States v. Morena
  Third Circuit· 2008-11-19· cited 66×
• Stevens v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-09-15· cited 50×
• United States v. Bornman
  Third Circuit· 2009-03-06· cited 46×
• United States v. Billy Talley
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-10-18· cited 43×
• United States v. Quatermain, Drax
  Third Circuit· 1980-01-14· cited 41×