Myers 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 a petitioner may not relitigate questions previously determined adversely to him in two separate habeas corpus cases by courts of competent jurisdiction
• holding that habeas corpus proceedings may not be employed to question, review, or test sufficiency of the evidence
• stating that post-conviction proceedings may not be used to challenge the sufficiency of the evidence at trial
• stating that appellant could not relitigate questions previously determined adversely to him in two separate habeas corpus cases by state and federal courts of competent jurisdiction
• “Habeas corpus and post-conviction proceedings may not be employed to question or review or test the sufficiency of the evidence . . . .”
• “Habeas corpus and post-conviction proceedings may not be employed to question or review or test the sufficiency of the evidence at the original trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Buford
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-12-29· cited 87×
• Gant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-09-25· cited 65×
• Bratton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-12-22· cited 64×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-10-05· cited 59×
• Rickman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-07-28· cited 36×
• Janow v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-04-14· cited 33×
• Ray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1972-09-08· cited 18×
• Wallis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-10-19· cited 12×
• Young v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-05-10· cited 12×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-04-02· cited 6×
• Rudd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-12-30· cited 5×
• Roach v. Moore
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-01-12· cited 5×
• Troletti v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1972-03-21· cited 3×
• Waggoner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-01-30· cited 3×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-02-01· cited 2×
• Eric D. Wallace v. Arvil Chapman, Warden
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-11-09
• Gerraldo White v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-08-01
• Jon Douglas Hall v. Ricky Bell, Warden, and State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-03-16
• Scott W. Grammar v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-06-06
• Eric D. Wallace v. Stephen Dotson, Warden
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-05-17

Cites

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

• MacHibroda v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1962-02-19· cited 1,618×
• Kercheval v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-16· cited 1,174×
• State ex rel. Newsom v. Henderson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1968-01-26· cited 378×
• Knewel v. Egan
  Supreme Court· 1925-05-25· cited 211×
• State Ex Rel. Edmondson v. Henderson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-11-27· cited 102×
• Brooks v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-07-17· cited 71×
• Dan Joseph Reed v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary
  Sixth Circuit· 1967-11-28· cited 68×
• Arnold Sanchez Fernandez v. John H. Klinger
  Ninth Circuit· 1965-05-27· cited 60×
• State Ex Rel. Barnes v. Henderson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1968-01-08· cited 54×
• State v. Meadows
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-04-07· cited 46×
• State Ex Rel. Lawrence v. Henderson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1968-06-18· cited 45×
• Thomas J. McCord and Milton Anglin v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 1967-10-25· cited 39×
• Otie Gray v. Wilburn C. Johnson, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 1966-03-28· cited 37×
• Knight v. Hudspeth
  Tenth Circuit· 1940-05-20· cited 37×
• State Ex Rel. Leighton v. Henderson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-07-16· cited 36×
• Shepard v. Henderson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-10-20· cited 35×
• Gallagher v. Ragen
  Supreme Court· 1945-04-02· cited 32×
• Francisco Gallegos v. Harold A. Cox, Warden, New Mexico State Penitentiary
  Tenth Circuit· 1966-03-25· cited 29×
• State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Henderson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-04-03· cited 25×
• Eugene Underwood v. Lynn Bomar, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary, Marvin Holbrook v. Lynn Bomar, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary
  Sixth Circuit· 1964-08-19· cited 24×