Jenkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] verdict fixing punishment below the statutory minimum for the offense of which the defendant is found guilty is a nullity.”
• “But the jury should be instructed to consider impeaching testimony as affecting only his credibility as a witness, and not as impairing the presumption of innocence.”
• knowing aider and abettor subject to same punishment as principal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Lemacks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-07-06· cited 351×
• State v. Nichols
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-06-20· cited 322×
• McConnell v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-02-14· cited 162×
• State v. Carson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-08-04· cited 122×
• State v. Jefferson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-05-24· cited 87×
• Anderson v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1979-09-27· cited 35×
• Prince v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-03-18· cited 30×
• State v. Grooms
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-02-25· cited 18×
• State v. Hamlin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-05-25· cited 18×
• Meade v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-06-10· cited 18×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-09-30· cited 15×
• Gwinn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1979-10-18· cited 14×
• Henley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-11-19· cited 13×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-05-22· cited 13×
• Sneed v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-10-27· cited 13×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-09-18· cited 5×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-03· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-03-18· cited 4×
• Whisnant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-05-29· cited 4×
• Cheairs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-05-10· cited 2×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Webster v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1967-11-27· cited 95×
• Jamison v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-06-09· cited 79×
• Brooks v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-07-17· cited 71×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1972-01-20· cited 53×
• Powers v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1906-09-15· cited 52×
• Arterburn v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-05-24· cited 49×
• Wooten v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1958-05-02· cited 43×
• McGill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-08-27· cited 36×
• Chadwick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1968-04-05· cited 34×
• Turner v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1891-01-22· cited 34×
• Reagan v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1927-05-09· cited 28×
• Price Peck v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1888-01-13· cited 27×
• Presley v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1930-07-19· cited 24×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-04-01· cited 23×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-11-22· cited 22×
• Mayfield v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1899-01-21· cited 20×
• Beeler v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1959-12-11· cited 18×
• Jones v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1955-03-11· cited 16×
• May v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-10-20· cited 14×