Little v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to instruct jury as to manslaughter held to be equivalent of telling jury that the defendant was guilty, if at all, of nothing less than second degree murder and was an invasion of the jury’s “province”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Shelton
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-10-15· cited 439×
• State v. Saylor
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2003-09-30· cited 214×
• State v. Ruane
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-07-14· cited 137×
• Strader v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1962-11-09· cited 114×
• State v. Butler
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-12-28· cited 51×
• State v. Jason Beeler
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-11-22

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Campbell v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1854-11-15· cited 64×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1851-06-15· cited 30×
• Holler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1871-11-15· cited 30×
• Little v. Ingram
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1854-08-15· cited 8×
• State v. Goodrich
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1847-01-15· cited 8×