State v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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

• new trial where judge threatened defense counsel with jail because conduct affected jury’s view of counsel’s credibility
• “Even greater caution should be exercised by the courts in permitting an adverse inference comment in criminal proceedings than in civil proceedings.”
• prejudicial error where trial judge threatened counsel with a jail sentence during closing argument and counsel ceased argument immediately thereafter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-03-15· cited 48×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-01-24· cited 41×
• State v. Hyman
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-07-22· cited 40×
• State v. Pace
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-07-05· cited 19×
• State v. Breeze
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2008-07-23· cited 19×
• State v. Posey
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1977-10-11· cited 12×
• State v. Primus
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2000-07-10· cited 10×
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1978-10-26· cited 4×
• State v. Cook
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-01-15· cited 3×
• State v. Pace
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1992-12-07· cited 1×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. MOUZON
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1957-08-27· cited 38×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1975-04-28· cited 34×
• State v. Batson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1973-08-16· cited 28×
• Duckworth v. First National Bank
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1970-08-20· cited 19×
• State v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1973-11-09· cited 6×