Brown 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 a lack of knowledge that claims exist does not toll the statute of limitations
• determining that “the petitioner’s claimed lack of knowledge does not toll the statute for post-conviction purposes”
• “[T]he petitioner’s grounds for post-conviction relief, ineffective assistance of counsel and involuntary plea, existed at the time of his conviction.”
• “[A] judgment of conviction is not a contract, and principles of contract law do not apply.”
• “As a general rule, this court will not address post-conviction issues that were not raised in the petition or addressed in the trial court.” (citation omitted)
• “Ignorance of statute of limitations is not an excuse for late filing, even when the petitioner claims that he did not learn of the statute’s enactment because he was incarcerated in another state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Al-Shabazz v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-02-14· cited 168×
• McConnell v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-02-14· cited 162×
• Rickman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-07-28· cited 36×
• Leamon v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-03-28· cited 8×
• Simmons v. Gath Baptist Church
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-01-23· cited 6×
• Antonio Angel Onate v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-08-28
• Morris Cobb v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-07-01
• Clayton Bezuidenhout v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-05-13
• Robert L. Conley v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-03-11
• Francisco Miquel Jose v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-09-28
• Ricardo Rodriguez v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-09-27
• Tony Chandler v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-08-01
• Efrain Huerata Orduna v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-06-21
• Juan Cantu v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-06-18
• Ivano Stamegna v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-11-29
• James L. Crawford v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-05-09
• Timothy Ray Gentry v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-10-19
• Sarrah Hewlett v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-07-20
• Matthew Melton Jackson v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-04-29
• Jason Earl Hill v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-02-16

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pennsylvania v. Finley
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-18· cited 3,807×
• Burford v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-12-21· cited 640×
• Sands v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-06-26· cited 382×
• Abston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1988-02-24· cited 65×
• State v. Street
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1988-10-10· cited 50×
• State v. Howington
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-10-09· cited 47×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-07-01· cited 33×
• Metheny v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1979-06-12· cited 27×
• Genesco, Inc. v. Woods
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1979-03-26· cited 23×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-08-11· cited 6×