State v. Duncan

How courts have described this case

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

• photographs showing blood, a bloody trail, the victim's body as found, and a fatal throat wound were not gruesome and served to supplement and clarify oral testimony describing the crime scene
• Photographs of victim’s body was admissible to show position of clothing because the defendant denied that a sexual attack occurred, but photograph of knife wound was inadmissible in light of the medical testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

427 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×
• State v. Harris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-05-11· cited 1,328×
• State v. Carruthers
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-12-11· cited 1,277×
• State v. Reid
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-12-19· cited 1,120×
• State v. Pendergrass
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-08-12· cited 1,047×
• State v. Cazes
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-02-14· cited 901×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1989-06-12· cited 868×
• State v. Bigbee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 691×
• State v. Howell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-10· cited 552×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-18· cited 479×
• State v. Sutton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-06-30· cited 456×
• State v. Black
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-08-05· cited 445×
• State v. Winters
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-11-07· cited 387×
• State v. Electroplating, Inc.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-06-10· cited 362×
• State v. Forbes
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-12-19· cited 359×
• State v. Strickland
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-09-09· cited 357×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 326×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 326×
• State v. Thomas
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-03-04· cited 308×
• State v. Nesbit
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-28· cited 292×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• United States v. Jackson
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-08· cited 1,409×
• State v. Banks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-04-17· cited 765×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-08-16· cited 438×
• State v. Crawford
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1971-09-07· cited 396×
• State v. Dicks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-02-02· cited 214×
• People v. Collins
  California Supreme Court· 1968-03-11· cited 205×
• Demps v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-13· cited 150×
• Houston v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1980-01-07· cited 128×
• Cozzolino v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1979-06-11· cited 121×
• State v. Bannister
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1984-11-20· cited 120×
• State v. Harrington
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-12-28· cited 114×
• State v. Strouth
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-06-08· cited 106×
• State v. Jones
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1980-03-31· cited 101×
• State v. Frampton
  Washington Supreme Court· 1981-04-16· cited 97×
• People v. Harbold
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-05-18· cited 96×
• Holt v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1962-05-04· cited 95×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1984-03-07· cited 91×
• Strouth v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 55×