Church v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, unless the matters mentioned in the indictment are essential elements of the crime, they may be disregarded for purposes of sufficiency analysis
• stating that the desc ription o f the offe nse c harge d mu st be s ufficien t in distinctness, certainty and precision to enable the accused to know what offense he or she is charged with and to understand the special nature of the charge he or she is called up on to an swer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Griffis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-04-30· cited 222×
• Eduardo Amador-Gonzalez v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-02-23· cited 206×
• State v. Cutshaw
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-12-09· cited 142×
• State v. Tate
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-08-11· cited 84×
• State v. Krogness
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1963-12-31· cited 75×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-10-05· cited 59×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1972-01-20· cited 53×
• State v. Dulsworth
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-06-29· cited 51×
• State of Tennessee v. Perry A. March
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-07-15· cited 34×
• Adair v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-03-27· cited 30×
• Grundstrom v. Beto
  N.D. Texas· 1967-08-04· cited 26×
• State v. Lindsay
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-03-17· cited 19×
• Seelbach v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-07-06· cited 11×
• Petree v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-06-05· cited 10×
• Gant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-07-09· cited 9×
• Headrick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-08-16· cited 9×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-06-20· cited 6×
• Taylor Implement Manufacturing Co. v. United Steelworkers of America
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1966-11-14· cited 6×
• Coffman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-12-02· cited 5×
• Nunley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1972-02-10· cited 5×