Bowen 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 the governor’s ability to 32 commute the petitioner’s sentence from death to ninety-nine years imprisonment in response to the Furman line of cases
• “[T]his commutation became effective without the consent of the defendant . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Taylor v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-21· cited 842×
• Rose v. Hodges
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-11· cited 344×
• State of Iowa v. Jeffrey K. Ragland
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-16· cited 211×
• State v. Newsome
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1989-09-25· cited 50×
• Collins v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1977-05-02· cited 48×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 38×
• Carroll v. Raney
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-06-02· cited 27×
• Pulley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-09-19· cited 24×
• Shye v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-09-25· cited 24×
• Gammon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-08-28· cited 20×
• Ricks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-03-16· cited 19×
• Hodges v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-01-12· cited 18×
• Briggs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-09-04· cited 17×
• Davis v. Mabry
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-09-17· cited 15×
• Carroll v. Raney
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-09-29· cited 10×
• Workman v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-01-03· cited 7×
• Mears v. State of Nevada
  D. Nevada· 1973-11-27· cited 7×
• Lay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-06-26· cited 6×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1986-07-02· cited 6×
• White v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1973-02-05· cited 5×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• McGautha v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-03· cited 1,077×
• Whan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-06-28· cited 103×
• Biddle v. Perovich
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-31· cited 89×
• State v. Sorrentino
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1924-03-25· cited 79×
• Woods v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1914-04-15· cited 77×
• Lee v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1872-12-04· cited 31×
• Young v. Young
  Texas Supreme Court· 1884-02-27· cited 22×
• State ex rel. Murphy v. Wolfer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1914-10-02· cited 21×
• Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Roberts
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1904-09-15· cited 19×
• Durham v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1891-03-04· cited 18×
• State ex rel. Barnes v. Garrett
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1915-12-15· cited 15×
• State Ex Rel. Rowe v. Connors
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1933-06-24· cited 7×
• Battistelli v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1919-04-15· cited 6×