Estep v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he right to challenge proposed jurors peremptorily . . . is a privilege only granted to the accused as a matter of grace by the legislature.”
• “The right to challenge is a right to reject, not to select a jury.”
• “[B]efore the jury is completed and sworn, the defendant . . . may have learned facts which would justify a challenge for cause, or a peremptory challenge of a juror already accepted, but not sworn. There is no reason why the trial judge should not allow such a challenge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jefferson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-11-10· cited 100×
• State v. Simon
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-06-01· cited 69×
• Wallis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-11-14· cited 4×
• Pueblo v. Muñiz Santos
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1955-01-25· cited 4×
• Margaret Danmole v. Charles L. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-06-26· cited 3×
• Marsha McDonald v. Paul F. Shea, M.D. and Shea Ear Clinic
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-02-16
• Cindy Hatfield v. Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-08-06
• People v. Muñiz Santos
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1955-01-25

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1887-06-15· cited 34×
• United States v. Davis
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Tennessee· 1900-05-22· cited 28×
• Wooten v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1897-06-10· cited 22×
• People v. Carrier
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1881-06-29· cited 20×
• Stewart v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1874-10-15· cited 11×
• Long v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-07-17· cited 11×
• McBean v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1870-10-25· cited 10×
• State v. Durr
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1887-05-15· cited 7×