McBee 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 appellate courts “do not sit to second guess strategic and tactical choices made by trial counsel,” but when those choices are “uninformed because of inadequate preparation, a defendant is denied effective assistance of counsel.”
• petitioner has the burden of proving his post-conviction allegations by a preponderance of the evidence
• burden of proof is by preponderance of evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Alley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-05-02· cited 267×
• Powers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-09-30· cited 267×
• Rhoden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1991-02-21· cited 140×
• Cone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-03-22· cited 63×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-02-28· cited 61×
• Wade v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-05-03· cited 55×
• Vermilye v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1987-09-04· cited 42×
• Rickman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-07-28· cited 36×
• Bentley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-09-18· cited 22×
• Sneed v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-10-24· cited 12×
• State v. O'Guinn
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-08-30· cited 8×
• State v. Russell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1991-11-06· cited 7×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-01-05· cited 5×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-06-11· cited 3×
• Gregory G. Kilgore v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-27
• Charles Goode v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-10-25
• Laveley Brown v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-08-08
• John Henry Sparrow, III v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-12-10
• Ricky Eugene Cofer v. State of Tennesse
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-08-24
• Robert D. Walsh v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-08-23

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Baxter v. Rose
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-05-19· cited 3,828×
• Hellard v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-03-08· cited 1,516×
• Millard Robert Beasley v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1974-02-01· cited 536×
• United States v. Willie Decoster, Jr.
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-12-27· cited 525×
• Clenny v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-11-09· cited 262×
• United States Ex Rel. Burton v. Cuyler
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1977-10-25· cited 21×
• State v. Howard
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-03-19· cited 14×
• Searles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1979-01-24· cited 9×