State v. Adkins

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no error or prejudice where the trial judge characterized a witness as hostile and later instructed the jury correctly respecting hostile witnesses
• the probability of prejudice from the wrongfully allowed evidence is so great reversal is required
• prejudice resulted where state relied 27 upon convictions of second degree murder, larceny from the person, and attempt to commit a felony, but offered no proof of violence for the latter two
• requiring evidence be proven beyond a reasonable doubt
• victim was prosecutor in another charge against defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Adkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-08-25· cited 1,010×
• State v. Cribbs
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-04-13· cited 368×
• State v. Nichols
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-06-20· cited 322×
• State v. Buck
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-01-30· cited 260×
• State v. Williams
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 252×
• State v. Middlebrooks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-07-06· cited 171×
• State v. Bobo
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-03-09· cited 89×
• State v. Caldwell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-04-30· cited 80×
• State v. Vaughn
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-06-16· cited 77×
• Workman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-04-07· cited 68×
• State v. Johnson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-08-22· cited 64×
• State v. Adkins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-02-16· cited 60×
• State v. Miller
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-05-29· cited 47×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1988-08-01· cited 46×
• State v. Henretta
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-09-30· cited 37×
• Irick v. Bell
  Sixth Circuit· 2009-05-12· cited 29×
• State v. Dowell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1985-10-04· cited 8×
• Clark v. Rose
  M.D. Tennessee· 1984-08-11· cited 7×
• State v. Kelly
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1985-05-07· cited 4×
• State v. Howell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1985-06-19· cited 3×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Tibbs v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 3,796×
• State v. Dicks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-02-02· cited 214×
• Demps v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-13· cited 150×
• Cozzolino v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1979-06-11· cited 121×
• State v. Moore
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-04-06· cited 69×
• State v. Bullington
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-01-26· cited 68×
• State v. Teague
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-01-31· cited 40×