Sparkman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Insanity and amnesia are distinct conditions, even though amnesia sometimes is an incident of insanity. Insanity is incapacity to discriminate between right and wrong, while amnesia is simply the inability to remember.”
• “Insanity and amnesia are distinct conditions, even though amnesia sometimes is an incident of insanity. Insanity is incapacity to discriminate between right and wrong, while amnesia is simply the inability to remember.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Scott
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1987-03-17· cited 126×
• Edwards v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-05-17· cited 109×
• State v. Anderson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-01-20· cited 75×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-09-28· cited 71×
• State v. Schimpf
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-03-23· cited 66×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1972-07-31· cited 23×
• Donald Brooks v. James H. Rose, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 1975-07-30· cited 20×
• State v. Howse
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-03-05· cited 17×
• Meade v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1972-06-14· cited 15×
• Pyburn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-04-06· cited 11×
• Nix v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1975-03-18· cited 9×
• Clark v. Rose
  M.D. Tennessee· 1984-08-11· cited 7×
• Lee v. Thompson
  E.D. Tennessee· 1977-04-19· cited 2×
• State of Tennessee v. Raymond Buford
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-09-24

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Webster v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1967-11-27· cited 95×
• Jamison v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-06-09· cited 79×
• Hargrove v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1955-08-02· cited 58×
• Gulley v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1966-10-07· cited 53×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-04-16· cited 51×
• Morrison v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1966-01-05· cited 42×
• Flippen v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-02-07· cited 41×
• Spurlock v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-06-04· cited 36×
• Patterson Transfer Co. v. Lewis
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1953-07-17· cited 36×
• East Tennessee Natural Gas Co. v. Peltz
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1954-03-18· cited 33×
• Crane Enamel Co. v. Jamison
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-12-11· cited 31×
• Great American Indemnity Company v. Friddell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1955-06-10· cited 25×
• Thomas v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1957-04-01· cited 24×
• Act-O-Lane Gas Service Co. v. Clinton
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1951-01-10· cited 19×
• City of Paris v. Paris-Henry County Public Utility District
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1960-09-09· cited 16×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-09-04· cited 5×