Dortch v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the validity of an Alford or “best interests” plea
• “A guilty plea may be accepted by the trial judge even when the defendant says that he is innocent so long as there is a factual basis for the guilty plea.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hicks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-04-02· cited 927×
• Stephen Bernard Wlodarz v. State of Tennessee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-02-23· cited 115×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-06-25· cited 37×
• State of Tennessee v. Westley A. Albright
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2018-12-11· cited 11×
• Charles T. Hartley v. Arvil Chapman, Warden
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-05-03
• State of Tennessee v. Derrick Lamont Parrish
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-12-07
• State of Tennessee v. Alonzo Thomas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-07-18
• Bruce Smiley v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-08-07
• Clifford Sims v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-05-30
• Robert Ledfod v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-03-24
• State of Tennessee v. Judy C. Turner
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-12-07
• Jesse E. Rogers v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-10-16
• State of Tennessee v. Daniel L. Scott
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-07-19
• James & Mary McCain v. Cary Vaughn
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-02-26
• Bell v. TN Farmers Mutual
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-01-22
• Ross Gunter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-12-12
• Anthony Ewing v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-09-20
• State vs.Robert Lewis Herrin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-09-19
• State v. William Blaine Campbell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-07-26
• John Penley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-12-01

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• State v. MacKey
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1977-06-20· cited 586×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-10-05· cited 59×
• Farmer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-06-15· cited 8×
• Sherrod v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-03-16· cited 5×