Parsons v. State

Decided December 23, 1948. Arthur B. Foster wrote the opinion for the court.

38 So. 2d 209 · Cited 84 times

Official text

Read the full opinion (CourtListener)

We don’t host opinion text or publish a summary of this ruling — read the official public-domain text for the court’s holding and reasoning, and verify against the primary source.

Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Boske v. Comingore · 177 U.S. 459
• Caha v. United States · 152 U.S. 211
• Palko v. Connecticut · 302 U.S. 319
• Maryland Casualty Co. v. United States · 251 U.S. 342
• Scher v. United States · 305 U.S. 251
• Ex Parte Hart · 200 So. 783
• McDowell v. State · 189 So. 183
• Roberson v. State · 162 Ala. 30
• Robinson v. State · 11 So. 2d 732
• State v. Friedkin · 14 So. 2d 363
• Reynolds v. State · 147 Ind. 3
• Colvin v. State · 22 So. 2d 548
• Lawrenceburg Roller Mills Co. v. Chas. A. Jones & Co. · 85 So. 719
• Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Screws · 119 So. 644
• Ott v. State · 160 Ala. 29
• Danoff v. Larson · 15 N.E.2d 290
• Tillis v. State · 119 So. 215
• Sanderson v. State · 181 So. 508
• United States v. Li Fat Tong · 152 F.2d 650
• Dorsey v. State · 110 Ala. 38
• Pope v. State · 36 So. 2d 899

Cited by

Later opinions in our collection that cite this decision.

• Calhoun v. State · 932 So. 2d 923
• Sanders v. State · 179 So. 2d 35
• Hinds v. State · 423 So. 2d 1382
• Cobern v. State · 142 So. 2d 869
• Smith v. State · 210 So. 2d 826
• Stokley v. State · 49 So. 2d 284
• People v. Williams · 333 P.2d 19
• People v. Lawrence · 149 Cal. App. 2d 435
• Smarr v. State · 68 So. 2d 6
• Summers v. State · 348 So. 2d 1126
• Baldwin v. State · 456 So. 2d 117
• Johnson v. State · 133 So. 2d 53
• People v. Castiel · 153 Cal. App. 2d 653
• Carroll v. State · 370 So. 2d 749
• Payne v. State · 74 So. 2d 630
• Coleman v. State · 487 So. 2d 1380
• Prescott v. Martin · 331 So. 2d 240
• Mabry v. State · 110 So. 2d 250
• Scruggs v. State · 359 So. 2d 836
• Burlison v. State · 369 So. 2d 844
• Spencer v. State · 58 So. 3d 215
• Lambert v. State · 266 So. 2d 812
• Bennefield v. State · 202 So. 2d 55
• Tooson v. State · 324 So. 2d 327
• Allen v. State · 382 So. 2d 1147

Explore from here

Arthur B. Foster’s Judicial Record · Ala. · How we source opinions

Source: opinion metadata, authorship, and citation counts from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data (public domain). Data last verified 2026-07-09. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).