Nichols v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecution allowed to reopen case to present testimony to rebut defendant's insanity plea where the defendant did not testify
• prosecution allowed to reopen case to present testimony to rebut defendant's insanity plea where the defendant did not testify
• the defendant's answers to questions three hours after the murder of his wife were admissible to shed light on his state of mind at the time of the murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-11-01· cited 201×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-02-04· cited 118×
• Bighames v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-11-01· cited 56×
• Albarran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-07-29· cited 50×
• Harnage v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1972-09-28· cited 49×
• Cunningham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-10-12· cited 44×
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America v. Hatas
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1971-08-05· cited 43×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-02-17· cited 43×
• McCulloch v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-04-05· cited 40×
• Click v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-12-20· cited 37×
• Bass v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-04-26· cited 33×
• Alabama Power Co. v. White
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-09-28· cited 31×
• Snow v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1973-04-03· cited 31×
• Page v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-01-07· cited 29×
• Wells v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-12-06· cited 28×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1968-05-23· cited 28×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1967-04-13· cited 25×
• Ex Parte State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1985-12-20· cited 21×
• Maples v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1968-10-08· cited 19×
• Crow v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-10-31· cited 18×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Aaron v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1960-07-14· cited 99×
• People v. David
  California Supreme Court· 1939-01-26· cited 93×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1953-03-13· cited 66×
• Barbour v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1954-10-07· cited 48×
• Southern Electric Generating Company v. Lance
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1959-03-12· cited 39×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1950-02-02· cited 37×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1956-05-24· cited 30×
• Sanford v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1904-11-15· cited 28×
• Sims v. Struthers
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1957-04-25· cited 23×
• Cosby v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1959-08-20· cited 21×
• Peyton v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1960-02-02· cited 18×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1950-06-01· cited 16×
• Meador v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1954-04-27· cited 12×
• United States v. Chisholm
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Alabama· 1907-05-06· cited 12×
• Parker v. City of Birmingham
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1951-08-02· cited 7×
• Peinhardt v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1954-09-03· cited 7×