Hall v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an instruction on flight is proper if a defendant is seen fleeing the crime scene
• finding flight instruction proper where the defendant was “observed fleeing the scene of the crime”
• “Evidence of flight to avoid arrest may be rebutted by a credible explanation of some motive other than guilt, but the conclusion to be drawn from such evidence is for the jury upon proper instructions from the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Dorantes
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2011-01-25· cited 2,795×
• State v. Lequire
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-09-01· cited 102×
• State v. Goodman
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-08-31· cited 96×
• State v. Kyger
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-09-27· cited 91×
• State v. Braggs
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1980-04-17· cited 87×
• State v. Payton
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-08-25· cited 77×
• Irick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-01-14· cited 75×
• State v. Whittenmeir
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1986-11-07· cited 27×
• State v. Hill
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-09-29· cited 22×
• State v. Beasley
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1985-06-06· cited 14×
• State v. Stafford
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1984-01-31· cited 12×
• State ex rel. Euclid Plaza Associates, L.L.C. v. Mason
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2002-05-14· cited 9×
• State v. Eberhardt
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-04-15· cited 5×
• State v. Woods
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1988-11-14· cited 1×
• State of Tennessee v. Donald Jones
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-08-21
• State of Tennessee v. Jason Charles Austin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-06-28
• State of Tennessee v. Shawn Simmons
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-09-23
• State of Tennessee v. David Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-06-17
• State of Tennessee v. Willie Hall
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-02-18
• State of Tennessee v. Antonio Huntsman
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-07-25

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wright v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1977-04-11· cited 35×
• Goins v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1950-10-31· cited 18×
• State v. Crow
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1974-11-12· cited 13×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-04-20· cited 11×
• Claiborne v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1904-04-15· cited 9×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-07-27· cited 3×
• Temple v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1874-04-15· cited 1×