Ivey 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 evidence tending to show motive is always relevant, particularly in cases built wholly or partially on circumstantial evidence
• “There is no proof in this record to furnish a logical basis for such an inference, and one so drawn on the evidence in this record would be based on no more than a mere possibility, and in fact would be speculation or conjecture.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Green v. Moore
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2003-04-29· cited 44×
• Duncan v. Pitts
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1963-03-11· cited 28×
• State Ex Rel. Ivey v. Meadows
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-09-10· cited 27×
• State v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1964-11-09· cited 24×
• Ewan v. Hardison Law Firm
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-07-31· cited 22×
• German Evangelical St. Marcus Congregation v. Archambault
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1966-07-11· cited 17×
• State v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1972-04-10· cited 11×
• Goedel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-04-04· cited 8×
• Driver v. Anheuser
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1965-10-19· cited 6×
• Mercantile Trust Co. National Ass'n v. Jaeger
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1970-08-03· cited 6×
• Welch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-04-27· cited 1×
• State of Tennessee v. Mack Tremaine Jones
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-06-27
• State of Tennessee v. Michael George Medina
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-10-02
• STATE OF TENNESSEE v. TOMMY DALE ADAMS
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-07-21
• State of Tennessee v. Joseph Caronna
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-11-18
• Richard Mack v. Cable Equipment Services INC.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2022-02-09
• Ellifrits v. Sweets
  W.D. Missouri· 1963-03-19
• State of Tennessee v. Joseph Wert
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-10-28

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Jarratt
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1932-07-23· cited 33×
• Anderson v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1933-02-11· cited 22×
• De Kalb County v. Tennessee Electric Power Co.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1933-07-08· cited 18×