Knight v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversible error in prosecutor’s argument that defendant should be convicted for the good of society on general principles because he was guilty of crimes other than that for which he was being tried

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Bigbee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 691×
• State v. Banks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-11-07· cited 671×
• State v. Griffis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-04-30· cited 222×
• State v. McCary
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-01-10· cited 148×
• State of Tennessee v. Nickolus L. Johnson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-04-19· cited 41×
• Irvin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1957-02-05· cited 39×
• Dupree v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-01-06· cited 25×
• French v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-01-13· cited 12×
• Marshall v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-04-15· cited 10×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-08-08· cited 9×
• State of Tennessee v. Robert L. Adams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-11-08
• State of Tennessee v. Lawrence E. Truman
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-06-27
• Steve Edward Houston v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-09-07
• State v. Darrell Dufrene
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-03-21
• Lamm v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-03-23
• State v. Christopher McBride
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-10-30

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Watkins v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1917-12-15· cited 29×
• Pearson v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1920-09-15· cited 28×
• Hiller v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1932-06-04· cited 22×
• Turner v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1879-12-15· cited 7×
• Roland v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1917-04-15· cited 5×