State v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant beat girlfriend to death with fists and fire poker and then stabbed her numerous times; death penalty upheld under (i)(5) aggravating circumstance
• defendant beat girlfriend to death with fists and fire poker, he then stabbed her numerous times; death penalty upheld under (i)(5) aggravating circumstance
• defendant -56- beat girlfriend to death with fists and fire poker and then stabbed her numerous times; death penalty upheld under (i)(5) aggravating circumstance
• death penalty affirmed based upon finding aggravating circumstance (i)(5), where defendant, intoxicated and on LSD, stabbed mildly retarded female victim five times in chest with Bowie knife, struck her twice in the face with a poker, and bound victim with hemp rope

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Cazes
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-02-14· cited 901×
• State v. Middlebrooks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-09-08· cited 519×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-18· cited 479×
• State v. Pike
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-10-05· cited 465×
• State v. Thacker
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-04-27· cited 449×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-11-15· cited 443×
• State v. Faulkner
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-01-25· cited 327×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 326×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 326×
• State v. Jordan
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-09-22· cited 318×
• State v. Van Tran
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-09-27· cited 288×
• State v. Morris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-07-10· cited 256×
• State v. Keen
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-10-05· cited 164×
• State v. Rimmer
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-02-20· cited 128×
• State v. Hurley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-04-11· cited 106×
• State v. Harris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-04-15· cited 50×
• Miller v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-08-29· cited 43×
• David Miller v. Tony Mays
  Sixth Circuit· 2018-01-09· cited 36×
• David Miller v. Roland Colson
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-09-13· cited 16×
• State v. Ward
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1991-04-25· cited 8×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Bullington v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-04· cited 875×
• State v. Banks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-04-17· cited 765×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-08-16· cited 438×
• Poland v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 338×
• State v. Buck
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-01-30· cited 260×
• State v. Williams
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 252×
• State v. Porterfield
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1988-01-19· cited 124×
• State v. McNish
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-03-23· cited 85×
• State v. Teague
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-10-29· cited 73×
• State v. Hartman
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-10-28· cited 65×
• State v. Barnes
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-12-23· cited 61×
• State v. Adkins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-02-16· cited 60×
• State v. Coe
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-09-06· cited 59×
• State v. Miller
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-05-29· cited 47×
• State v. House
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-12-14· cited 46×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-08-12· cited 27×