State v. Blackburn

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 conviction for felony murder and the underlying felony of especially aggravated robbery did not violate double jeopardy principles
• concluding that dual convictions for felony murder and the underlying felony do not violate double jeopardy principles
• holding a defendant can be punished for assault with intent to commit rape and resulting felony murder
• opining “that the legislature intended that multiple punishments be imposed on conviction of a defendant for felony murder and for the underlying felony”
• double jeopardy principles do not bar prosecution for and conviction of both felony murder and underlying felony
• felony murder and assault with intent to commit rape

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Taylor v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-21· cited 842×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-21· cited 732×
• State v. Denton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-12-02· cited 244×
• State v. Watkins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-03-09· cited 232×
• State v. Godsey
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-11-29· cited 198×
• State v. Zirkle
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-02-13· cited 179×
• State v. Barber
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1988-03-21· cited 161×
• State v. Caldwell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-09-30· cited 87×
• State v. Greco
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-08-14· cited 85×
• State v. Bennett
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1990-06-07· cited 77×
• Irick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-01-14· cited 75×
• State v. Ralph
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-11-15· cited 58×
• Cook v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1992-11-20· cited 54×
• State v. Muhammad
  Washington Supreme Court· 2019-11-07· cited 52×
• State v. Torres
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-07-19· cited 42×
• State v. McCovey
  Utah Supreme Court· 1990-12-18· cited 42×
• Welch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-03-06· cited 35×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1988-01-13· cited 35×
• Todd v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1996-06-21· cited 32×
• Strouth v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-28· cited 31×