Witherow v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the prosecutor’s calling the defendant “a liar” and “con man” was impermissible
• recognizing that an improper statement may be harmless if the verdict would have been the same absent the statement
• recognizing that an improper statement may be harmless if the verdict would have been the same absent the statement
• recognizing that an improper statement 15 may be harmless if the verdict would have been the same absent the statement
• stating that it is improper argument to characterize a witness as a liar
• stating that it is improper argument to characterize a witness as a liar

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Collman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-08-23· cited 79×
• Evans v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-10-22· cited 71×
• Greene v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-01-04· cited 71×
• Rippo v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-10-01· cited 64×
• Emmons v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-03-06· cited 62×
• Witter v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-07-22· cited 60×
• Guy v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-09-03· cited 60×
• Rowland v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-01-24· cited 60×
• Steese v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-05-19· cited 59×
• Ross v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 58×
• Rudin v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-04-01· cited 58×
• Sherman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-10-27· cited 30×
• Earl v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1995-11-01· cited 25×
• Atkins v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-08-28· cited 22×
• Homick v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-04-03· cited 12×
• Skiba v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-05-28· cited 7×
• Honeycutt v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-10-31· cited 6×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1989-04-14· cited 4×
• MARISCAL-OCHOA (MANUEL) v. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2024-06-27· cited 1×
• Zecena-Valdez (Selvin) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-05-15

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• John Harris, Jr. v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1968-09-17· cited 102×
• Collier v. State of Nevada
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-09-05· cited 90×
• Manning v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-02-14· cited 24×
• Walker v. Fogliani
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1967-04-03· cited 16×

Other cases named Witherow v. State

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• WITHEROW v. STATE
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2017-06-15· cited 6×
• WITHEROW v. STATE
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2017-06-15
• WITHEROW v. STATE
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2017-07-25
• Witherow v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2017-07-25