Collins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a jury would resentence on remand “with punishment to be fixed in each case from twenty years to life imprisonment”
• upholding, on rehearing, the 31 governor’s commutation of the petitioners’ sentences from death to life imprisonment after the state supreme court held the death-sentence statute unconstitutional
• striking down Tennessee’s mandatory death penalty statute
• striking down Tennessee’s mandatory death pen- alty statute
• invalidating Tennessee’s mandatory death penalty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Bland
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-01· cited 3,458×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×
• Taylor v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-21· cited 842×
• Kennedy v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-25· cited 620×
• State v. Middlebrooks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-09-08· cited 519×
• State v. Black
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-08-05· cited 445×
• Leatherwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-19· cited 232×
• State of Iowa v. Jeffrey K. Ragland
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-16· cited 211×
• Miller v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1979-04-02· cited 132×
• People Ex Rel. Madigan v. Snyder
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2004-01-23· cited 105×
• State v. Lindquist
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1979-01-11· cited 97×
• State v. Robinson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-09-15· cited 87×
• State v. Jefferson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-05-24· cited 87×
• Rippy v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1977-05-02· cited 75×
• State v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1996-12-13· cited 40×
• William Rogers v. Tony Mays
  Sixth Circuit· 2023-06-05· cited 37×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-08-26· cited 25×
• Ricks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-03-16· cited 19×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-05-16· cited 18×
• Claiborne v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-06-10· cited 15×

Cites

36 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Mempa v. Rhay
  Supreme Court· 1967-11-13· cited 1,589×
• McGautha v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-03· cited 1,077×
• Roberts v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 802×
• Rose v. Hodges
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-11· cited 344×
• Farris v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-03-30· cited 112×
• Whan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-06-28· cited 103×
• Jamison v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-06-09· cited 79×
• Huffman v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1956-06-08· cited 74×
• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 1971-09-07· cited 38×
• Bowen v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1972-12-19· cited 35×
• State v. Dixon
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-11-17· cited 33×
• State v. Hailey
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1974-02-04· cited 32×
• Boyd v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-03-11· cited 32×
• Hunter v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1972-12-18· cited 29×
• Scott v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1960-09-09· cited 26×
• Williams v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 26×