State v. Bates

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that the future dangerousness argument may be relevant to an aggravating circumstance
• issue of specific or general deterrence should be avoided by the prosecution in closing argument at a capital sentencing hearing
• calling the defendant a “rabid dog”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Evans
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-09-14· cited 1,810×
• Momon v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-03-30· cited 1,008×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-21· cited 732×
• State v. Bigbee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 691×
• State v. Howell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-10· cited 552×
• Bates v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-06-20· cited 461×
• State v. Thacker
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-04-27· cited 449×
• State v. Sims
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-04-17· cited 395×
• State v. Davidson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2003-10-20· cited 390×
• State v. Cribbs
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-04-13· cited 368×
• State v. Vann
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-21· cited 357×
• State v. Bane
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-07-03· cited 328×
• State v. Nichols
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-06-20· cited 322×
• State v. Thomas
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-03-04· cited 308×
• State v. Nesbit
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-28· cited 292×
• State v. Van Tran
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-09-27· cited 288×
• James David Carter v. Ricky Bell, Warden Paul Summers, Attorney General
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-07-07· cited 283×
• State v. Berry
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2004-08-23· cited 281×
• State v. Young
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2006-06-30· cited 280×
• State v. Stout
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-05-24· cited 263×

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Jones v. Barnes
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 7,925×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Rhode Island v. Innis
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,571×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• North Carolina v. Butler
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-24· cited 2,172×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Estes v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,725×
• Murphy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 1,568×
• Mills v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,392×
• Oregon v. Bradshaw
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-23· cited 1,351×
• Ross v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1988-08-25· cited 1,289×
• Rideau v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-03· cited 1,211×
• California v. Ramos
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 1,071×
• Spaziano v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 1,061×
• State v. Williams
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-08-29· cited 1,043×
• State v. Banks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-04-17· cited 765×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-08-16· cited 438×