State v. Boyd

How courts have described this case

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

• commenting that the “remaining case” involved a prior offense of voluntary manslaughter, “a lesser grade of offense than second-degree murder”
• prior violent felony aggravating circumstance “may be more qualitatively persuasive and objectively reliable” than other aggravating circumstances
• affirming sentence based on prior conviction for second degree murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Cribbs
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-04-13· cited 368×
• State v. Rodriguez
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-04-24· cited 360×
• State v. Stevens
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-05-14· cited 311×
• Gdongalay P. Berry v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-11-04· cited 104×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-05-17· cited 103×
• Sample v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-08-02· cited 99×
• Mika'eel Abdullah Abdus-Samad, Formerly Known as Michael J. Boyd v. Ricky Bell, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-08-25· cited 94×
• Strouth v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-28· cited 31×
• King v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-07· cited 13×
• Coleman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-12-04· cited 7×
• Christopher A. Davis v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-08-24
• State of Tennessee v. Michael Dale Rimmer
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-12-15
• State of Tennessee v. James Riels
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-03-31
• State of Tennessee v. Robert Hood
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-09-13
• State of Tennessee v. Stephen Lynn Hugueley
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-03-17
• State of Tennessee v. David Ivy
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-12-30
• Tommy L. King v. State of Tennessee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-07
• State v. Perry A. Cribbs
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-04-13
• Jonathan Davis v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-08-16
• State of Tennessee v. Michael D. Rimmer
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-05-25

Cites

37 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×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• State v. Evans
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-09-14· cited 1,810×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• State v. Cazes
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-02-14· cited 901×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• State v. Bigbee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 691×
• Stringer v. Black
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 682×
• State v. Howell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-10· cited 552×
• State v. Middlebrooks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-09-08· cited 519×
• Richmond v. Lewis
  Supreme Court· 1992-12-01· cited 349×
• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 326×
• State v. Nichols
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-06-20· cited 322×
• State v. Hines
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-03-11· cited 305×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 234×
• State v. Walker
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-09-18· cited 200×
• State v. Boyd
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1990-09-24· cited 185×
• State v. Keen
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-07-08· cited 147×
• Lackey v. Scott
  Supreme Court· 1995-01-09· cited 133×