State v. Houston

How courts have described this case

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

• store employee who concealed merchandise in a bag without implied permission and left it at a pick-up dock for a friend who had not paid for it committed a statutory “fraudulent appropriation” and, thus, a “trespass”
• “It is the province of the trial judge to state to the jury the law of the case, and it is not advisable for counsel to attempt to do so in final argument because of the possibility of error in their summation.”’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Carruthers
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-12-11· cited 1,277×
• State v. Hatcher
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-05-04· cited 248×
• State of Tennessee v. Hubert Glenn Sexton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-05-29· cited 247×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1990-05-02· cited 61×
• Carter v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-06-10· cited 51×
• Welch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-22· cited 47×
• United States v. Dwight Wade Seaton, Cross-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 1995-01-17· cited 23×
• City of Elizabethton, Tennessee v. North American Fibers, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-11-19
• Rhea County v. Town of Graysville
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-04-18
• Effie Louise Hayes v. Roger Strutton
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-04-17
• State of Tennessee v. Alejandro Rivera
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-12-01
• State v. Barry Davis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-08-19
• State of Tennessee v. Xavier Tull-Morales
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2016-09-19
• State of Tennessee v. Marcellus Hurt
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2020-04-01
• State of Tennessee v. Kimberly M. Smart
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-04-22

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• State v. Lequire
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-09-01· cited 102×
• Wright v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1977-04-11· cited 35×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-11-10· cited 16×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-09-18· cited 5×
• State v. Eberhardt
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-04-15· cited 5×
• State v. McArthur
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-01-18· cited 1×