State v. Campbell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence of the aggravator was \overwhelming\ where an elderly murder victim was beaten to death with a blunt object and his hands showed that he had attempted to defend himself
• retirement home resident severely beaten about the head with a blunt object during the course of a robbery
• defendant murdered victim during course of a robbery and was sentenced to death upon finding of (i)(2), (i)(5), and (i)(7) aggravators
• defendant beat elderly man to death during a robbery and was sentenced to death upon finding of (i)(2), (i)(5), and (i)(7) aggravating circumstances
• defendant beat seventy-two-year-old victim to death during robbery; aggravating circumstances (i)(2), (i)(5), and (i)(7)
• defendant beat seventy-two-year-old victim to death during robbery; aggravating circumstances (i)(2), (i)(5), and (i)(7)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Bland
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-01· cited 3,458×
• State v. Cazes
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-02-14· cited 901×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1989-06-12· cited 868×
• State v. Howell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-10· cited 552×
• State v. Middlebrooks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-09-08· cited 519×
• Bell v. Cone
  Supreme Court· 2005-01-24· cited 475×
• State v. Sims
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-04-17· cited 395×
• State v. Nichols
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-06-20· cited 322×
• State v. Bush
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-04-07· cited 308×
• State v. Barber
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1988-03-21· cited 161×
• State v. Bobo
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-03-09· cited 89×
• State v. Ivy
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2006-02-28· cited 74×
• State of Tennessee v. Corinio Pruitt
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-10-08· cited 51×
• State v. Rollins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2006-03-16· cited 48×
• Barber v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 45×
• State v. Poe
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1988-07-18· cited 41×
• State v. Henretta
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-09-30· cited 37×
• State v. Boyd
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-01-05· cited 37×
• Harries v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-07-30· cited 35×
• Elmore v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1985-02-18· cited 10×