State v. Francis

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is well- established that a prosecutor may comment upon the failure of a defendant to call an available and material witness whose testimony would ordinarily be expected to favor the defendant.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

73 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. Middlebrooks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-09-08· cited 519×
• State v. Rodriguez
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-04-24· cited 360×
• State v. Thompson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1989-02-27· cited 240×
• Newcomb v. Kohler Co.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-09-05· cited 210×
• State v. Bough
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2004-11-01· cited 138×
• State v. Philpott
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-03-23· cited 130×
• Dickey v. McCord
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-04-04· cited 95×
• State v. Baker
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-11-01· cited 92×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-03-09· cited 38×
• Wilkerson Ex Rel. Wilkerson v. Altizer
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-04-02· cited 28×
• State v. Tahair
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-03-02· cited 24×
• In Re Estate of Price
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-03-24· cited 22×
• State v. Crank
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1986-07-11· cited 15×
• Elchlepp v. Hatfield
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-07-30· cited 14×
• State of Tennessee v. Steven O. Hughes-Mabry
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-05-23
• Jermaine R. Carpenter v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-12-28
• State of Tennessee v. Eric Lebron Hale
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-08-31
• State of Tennessee v. Cody Rickey Cofer
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-08-20
• State of Tennessee v. Nero Oswald Jones
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-03-30

Cites

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

• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Graves v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1893-11-06· cited 388×
• Harrington v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-01-06· cited 306×
• Delk v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1979-10-09· cited 161×
• Cleveland Burgess v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1970-12-29· cited 112×
• State v. Jones
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1980-03-31· cited 101×
• Alexander Bisno v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1962-01-31· cited 93×
• Thomas v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1982-06-30· cited 62×
• Dent v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-07-16· cited 60×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1967-10-09· cited 53×
• State v. De Paola
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1950-05-29· cited 45×
• Robert L. Brown v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-06-11· cited 35×
• State v. Nelson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1980-06-27· cited 35×
• National Life & Accident Ins. v. Eddings
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1949-06-10· cited 35×
• Floyd v. Colonial Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-05-13· cited 25×
• Franks v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-07-17· cited 25×
• Knox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-11-30· cited 23×
• Conboy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-03-16· cited 20×
• Ball v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1949-03-11· cited 20×
• Contreras v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-17· cited 19×