Sowell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming post-conviction court’s dismissal of petition without a hearing when “[t]he only valid issue raised was a legal question which has been decided adversely to defendant’s contention by the case law of this State”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Harold Wayne Nichols v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2019-10-10

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• Johnson v. Avery
  Supreme Court· 1969-02-24· cited 1,359×
• State v. MacKey
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1977-06-20· cited 586×
• State v. Wilkins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-08-29· cited 52×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Willis S. Marshall, Relator-Appellee v. Walter H. Wilkins, Warden of Attica State Prison, Attica, New York
  Second Circuit· 1964-11-10· cited 30×
• Cureton v. Tollett
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-09-15· cited 18×
• Charles W. Taylor v. Paul F. Pegelow, Etc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1964-07-28· cited 14×