State v. Morgan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “where a witness is sought to be cross-examined as to specific instances of conduct as contemplated by Rule 608(b), the Court shall conduct a jury-out hearing for the purpose of determining that the probative value of such evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect”
• reasoning that judges faced great “difficulty” in “applying a test that is vague and cannot be explicitly defined,” that the dictionary definition of “moral turpitude” had provided no guidance, and that the standard had produced inconsistent rulings
• adopting Fed. R. Evid. 608(b) and 609(b)
• adopting Federal Rule of Evidence 608(b)
• adopting Federal Rule of Evidence 608(b)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Sheffield
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-08-27· cited 1,460×
• State v. Adkisson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-12-08· cited 1,177×
• State v. Brown
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-06-01· cited 781×
• James David Carter v. Ricky Bell, Warden Paul Summers, Attorney General
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-07-07· cited 283×
• State v. Millbrooks
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1991-04-10· cited 239×
• State v. Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-07-14· cited 170×
• State v. Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-03-01· cited 168×
• State v. Miller
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1987-05-12· cited 168×
• State v. Thompson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-03-17· cited 166×
• People v. Allen
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1988-02-16· cited 150×
• State v. Philpott
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-03-23· cited 130×
• State v. McKay
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-11-19· cited 126×
• State v. Furlough
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1990-04-10· cited 112×
• State v. Foster
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1988-06-03· cited 103×
• State v. Waller
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2003-10-30· cited 95×
• State v. Henley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1989-04-10· cited 95×
• State v. Bell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2015-09-10· cited 89×
• State v. Buford
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-12-29· cited 87×
• State v. Turnbill
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-06-04· cited 82×
• Myrisia Franklin v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Eighth Circuit· 1996-02-12· cited 81×

Cites

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

• State v. Fowler
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-12-05· cited 134×
• State v. Bock
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1958-07-30· cited 88×
• Brooks v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-07-17· cited 71×
• Collard v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-08-18· cited 62×
• Powers v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1906-09-15· cited 52×
• State v. Sorrell
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1959-01-21· cited 42×
• Headley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1973-08-14· cited 40×
• Gray v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1950-12-09· cited 40×
• Zanone v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1896-06-16· cited 32×
• People v. Theodore
  California Court of Appeal· 1953-11-03· cited 26×
• Lockwood v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1958-12-19· cited 21×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-04-08· cited 17×
• Keith v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1912-12-15· cited 16×
• Davis v. Wicker
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1960-03-11· cited 12×
• Fee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-03-09· cited 11×
• Posley v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1956-03-09· cited 10×
• McGee v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1960-02-05· cited 9×
• Hendricks and Brooks v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1931-06-10· cited 7×
• McKenzie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-09-02· cited 5×
• Everhart v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1952-06-07· cited 2×