Alexander v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the absence of a limiting instruction in a Bruton context worked to “compound the error”
• holding insertion of “my friend” in place of non-confessor’s name insufficient to cure prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Robinson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-09-15· cited 87×
• People v. Hernandez
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-01-19· cited 33×
• State v. Howard
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-03-19· cited 14×
• State v. Street
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1984-01-25· cited 3×
• Andrew Thomas v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-02-23
• State of Tennessee v. Destiny Diamond Baxter and Anthony Wayne Sheffield
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-03-13

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Schneble v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-21· cited 1,324×
• Judge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-03-19· cited 475×
• Nelson v. O'NEIL
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-01· cited 427×
• State v. Elliott
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-05-27· cited 49×
• O'NEIL v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-03-13· cited 27×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-04-06· cited 21×
• Hoskins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1972-09-13· cited 8×
• Gwin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-01-24· cited 8×