State v. Beasley

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 prosecutor may argue against the credibility of a witness during closing arguments so long as he or she does not “go outside of the evidence” or insert personal opinion or belief into the argument

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Brown
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-06-01· cited 781×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-11-18· cited 172×
• State v. West
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1989-02-06· cited 111×
• West v. Bell
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-12-18· cited 76×
• State v. Bowers
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-08-30· cited 45×
• State v. Grooms
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-02-25· cited 18×
• State v. Prince
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1986-01-28· cited 14×
• Sneed v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-10-27· cited 13×
• Bishop v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-01-17· cited 2×
• Michael Lebron Anderson v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-08-13
• State of Tennessee v. Halbert Varnell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-10-06
• State of Tennessee v. Ronnie W. Salmon
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-10-14
• State of Tennessee v. Jackie Leonard Durham and Gary Lee Raines, alias Gary L. Rains
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-06-24
• State of Tennessee v. Steve A. White
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-05-23
• State of Tennessee v. George Glenn King, Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-05-15
• State of Tennessee v. James Arthur Kimbrell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-04-15
• State of Tennessee v. Billy F. Johnson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-02-18
• Donald G. Brooks v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-02-11
• State of Tennessee v. Timothy Wayne Holland
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-09-04
• State of Tennessee v. Frederick Devill Rice
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-06-17

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Reyes
  California Supreme Court· 1974-09-17· cited 163×
• Smith v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1959-07-27· cited 88×
• Wooten v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1958-05-02· cited 43×
• State v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1961-11-30· cited 36×
• The People v. Weaver
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1959-11-18· cited 36×
• People v. Charles
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1975-02-10· cited 22×
• State v. Plowden
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1974-01-02· cited 18×
• State v. Franklin
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1975-07-22· cited 15×