State v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• granting and timing of opening statements are matters within the discretion of the trial judge
• \An opening statement serves to inform the jury of the general nature of the action and defenses involved in a case so they will be better prepared to understand the evidence presented.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Kornahrens
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-10-13· cited 73×
• United States v. Edwin R. Salovitz
  Second Circuit· 1983-02-16· cited 44×
• State v. Southerland
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-08-15· cited 43×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. WEEDEN
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 39×
• State v. Guffey
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1970-04-11· cited 28×
• State v. Hargrove
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1968-03-14· cited 11×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1980-12-02· cited 8×
• Black v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-02-17· cited 6×
• Schwartz v. Fein
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1971-06-15· cited 6×
• Smith v. Berry
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-09-06· cited 4×
• Perryman v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1967-05-01· cited 4×