Harris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Plainly the theory involves the absurdity, that an error of the judge may be revised, yet an error of the jury as to the law, which may be fatal to the prisoner, can never be[.]”
• “At common law, the jury only maintained the right and responsibility to act under the instructions of the court and apply the law given to them to the facts proven with the mission of determining guilt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Black
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-08-05· cited 445×
• STATE of Tennessee v. Phedrek T. DAVIS
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-10-17· cited 86×
• State v. Bane
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-03-29· cited 62×
• State of Tennessee v. Nickolus L. Johnson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-04-19· cited 41×
• Dworkin v. L.F.P., Inc.
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1992-09-18· cited 36×
• Oakes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1910-03-15· cited 21×
• State of Tennessee v. Curtis Logan Lawson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2019-10-08