McCracken v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the presentment’s erroneous reference to wrong code section was clerical error and thus mere surplusage
• kidnapping presentment which failed to allege asportation and secrecy held void, no offense charged
• it is not necessary that indictment state that the charged conduct is “contrary to a statute,” and reference to wrong proscriptive statute was properly treated by trial court as surplusage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-21· cited 732×
• State v. Lewis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-03-17· cited 231×
• State v. Marshall
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-03-18· cited 179×
• Delk v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1979-10-09· cited 161×
• State v. McCary
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-01-10· cited 148×
• State v. Cutshaw
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-12-09· cited 142×
• Coker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-06-07· cited 132×
• State of Tennessee v. Noura Jackson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2014-08-22· cited 124×
• State v. Gann
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-10-16· cited 122×
• State of Tennessee v. Dale Keith Larkin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-03-28· cited 67×
• State v. Hill
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-05-12· cited 42×
• State v. Seagraves
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-02-12· cited 41×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-04-24· cited 35×
• State v. Clark
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-11-06· cited 19×
• McCracken v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-03-11· cited 15×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-03-04· cited 9×
• Ledford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-03-16· cited 9×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-01-19· cited 6×
• McBee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-12-10· cited 3×
• Rockwell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-12-13· cited 3×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Morgan v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-05-22· cited 68×
• Patmore v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1925-12-06· cited 45×
• Warden v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1964-07-15· cited 32×
• Hays v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1929-07-19· cited 11×
• Cowan v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1961-05-26· cited 7×
• Sherod v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-05-28· cited 7×
• Duke v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1954-11-16· cited 2×