State v. Irvin

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing crimes against the person from crimes against property, quoting from Vigil v. State, 563 P.2d 1344, 1352 (Wyo. 1977)
• “It seems illogical to us, as a general proposition, to hold that when two persons have been killed by an accused, he has committed only one homicide. Prior cases in this state so holding are overruled or modified to the extent that they conflict herewith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Denton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-12-02· cited 244×
• State v. Watkins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-03-09· cited 232×
• Hughes v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2011-05-24· cited 211×
• State v. Couture
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-10-02· cited 199×
• Ex Parte Rathmell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 163×
• State v. Madera
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-12-17· cited 114×
• Spradling v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-21· cited 92×
• State v. Dunlop
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1986-06-13· cited 76×
• City of Chattanooga v. Davis
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-09-04· cited 76×
• State v. Johnson
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1985-10-01· cited 72×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-03-02· cited 63×
• United States v. Jones
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-03-07· cited 56×
• State v. McFadden
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-06-16· cited 56×
• State v. Goins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1986-02-24· cited 55×
• Nolan v. Memphis City Schools
  Sixth Circuit· 2009-12-11· cited 46×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-06-26· cited 42×
• State v. Kluttz
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1987-02-17· cited 41×
• State v. Lytell
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-03-22· cited 37×
• State v. Seidschlaw
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1981-04-01· cited 35×
• State v. Pelayo
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-05-05· cited 34×

Cites

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

• Neal v. State of California
  California Supreme Court· 1960-12-13· cited 950×
• State v. Black
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 141×
• Vigil v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1977-04-26· cited 90×
• The People v. Allen
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1937-10-22· cited 79×
• Huffman v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1956-06-08· cited 74×
• Davenport v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-12-22· cited 67×
• Thessen v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-04-13· cited 61×
• State v. Whitley
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1964-10-12· cited 39×
• Murray v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-05-24· cited 37×
• Smith v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1929-11-16· cited 33×
• Jeppesen v. State
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1951-11-02· cited 33×
• State v. Miranda
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1966-07-07· cited 30×
• Burton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1955-04-04· cited 28×
• Lawrence v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-06-14· cited 25×
• Myers v. Murensky
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-07-11· cited 24×
• State v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1952-03-31· cited 24×
• Holder v. Fraser, Judge
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1949-04-11· cited 14×
• Windham v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1961-04-25· cited 7×
• Kannon v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1882-12-15· cited 6×
• Womack v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1870-04-15· cited 4×