Christian 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 instruction to the jury that disparaged alibi evidence, such as the warning that an alibi defense can be easily fabricated, does indeed “amount to judicial comment upon the evidence offered by the accused” and is erroneous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Banks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-11-07· cited 671×
• State v. Crawford
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-03-11· cited 160×
• State of Tennessee v. Raynella Dossett Leath
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-03· cited 95×
• State v. Wooden
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-07-08· cited 93×
• State of Tennessee v. James Hawkins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2017-05-01· cited 85×
• People v. Huckleberry
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-02-21· cited 80×
• Leon Robins v. James Fortner
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-10-17· cited 39×
• Mattress v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-12-09· cited 30×
• State v. Looper
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-02-03· cited 22×
• Duckett v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-03-30· cited 22×
• Nathaniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-09-02· cited 19×
• State v. Johnny Moffitt
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-10-21· cited 17×
• State v. Howse
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-03-05· cited 17×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-05-23· cited 12×
• Bishop v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-01-17· cited 2×
• State of Tennessee v. Henry Alfred Honea
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-01-28
• State of Tennessee v. Charles Stan Martin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-09-18
• State v. Alfonzo Chalmers
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-02-25
• State v. Christopher Barham
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-06-26
• State of Tennessee v. Franklin Dale Grayson, Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2016-11-08

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bolin v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1966-09-02· cited 1,054×
• People v. McCoy
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1974-08-02· cited 102×
• Smith v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1959-07-27· cited 88×
• Poe v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-09-11· cited 82×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-03-25· cited 76×
• Odeneal v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1913-04-15· cited 54×
• Manning v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1973-10-15· cited 48×
• Ford v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1898-11-02· cited 32×
• Legere v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1903-09-15· cited 31×
• Cole v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-12-11· cited 31×
• Bright v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1950-07-15· cited 25×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-01-15· cited 14×
• State v. Rosenbaum
  Utah Supreme Court· 1969-01-30· cited 10×
• Davis v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1875-12-15· cited 7×
• Wiley v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1875-12-15· cited 3×
• Chappel v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1869-12-15· cited 1×
• Thompson v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1844-12-15· cited 1×