Brooks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that when a defendant elects to testify, “he subjects himself to all the rules and tests of credibility, and may be impeached in the same manner as any other witness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Harris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-05-11· cited 1,328×
• State v. Turner
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-09-20· cited 470×
• State v. Caughron
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-05-10· cited 310×
• Harrington v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-01-06· cited 306×
• State v. Land
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-04-28· cited 242×
• State v. Morgan
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-08-09· cited 159×
• State v. Fowler
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-12-05· cited 134×
• State v. Akins
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-07-02· cited 106×
• Parham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-05-25· cited 73×
• State Ex Rel. Barnes v. Henderson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1968-01-08· cited 54×
• State v. Todd
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-07-25· cited 44×
• Myers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-09-24· cited 42×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-01-03· cited 41×
• Shepard v. Henderson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-10-20· cited 35×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-06-16· cited 35×
• Montesi v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-06-26· cited 34×
• State v. Onidas
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-07-06· cited 27×
• Pyle by Pyle v. Morrison
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1986-05-29· cited 20×
• Taylor v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1950-07-15· cited 20×
• Beaty v. Neil
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-03-09· cited 17×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kercheval v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-16· cited 1,174×
• Powers v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1906-09-15· cited 52×
• The People v. Rongetti
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1928-10-25· cited 33×
• Zanone v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1896-06-16· cited 32×
• People v. Newman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1913-12-17· cited 29×
• Price Peck v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1888-01-13· cited 27×
• Ryan v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1896-07-22· cited 22×
• Keith v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1912-12-15· cited 16×
• Morgan v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1888-03-01· cited 8×
• Stewart v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1932-03-05· cited 5×