State v. Randolph

How courts have described this case

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

• second degree murder under conscious indifference to human life standard
• “[T]he act of the customer in injecting himself [with heroin] is not necessarily so unexpected, unforeseeable or remote as to insulate the seller from criminal responsibility [for murder or manslaughter under prior statutes] as a matter of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Farner
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-01-22· cited 179×
• State v. Ruane
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-07-14· cited 137×
• Commonwealth v. Catalina
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-03· cited 97×
• State v. Rogers
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-05-24· cited 60×
• State v. Goodman
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-11-22· cited 48×
• State v. Shepherd
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-11-24· cited 47×
• State v. Severs
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1988-07-08· cited 44×
• Lofthouse v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-02-24· cited 33×
• State v. Aarsvold
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1985-11-12· cited 26×
• State v. Burrow
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-03-21· cited 21×
• United States v. Henderson
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1986-11-10· cited 20×
• Hulme v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-19· cited 15×
• Anthony Bond v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-01-24
• Andrew Thomas v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-02-23
• State of Tennessee v. Anthony M. Bond
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-09-20
• State v. Pierce
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-09-10
• Joseph Pollard v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-08-27
• Commonwealth v. Carrillo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-10-03
• State of Tennessee Tommy Lynn Rutherford
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2020-02-05
• State of Tennessee v. Edwin Alfonso Reeves
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2021-12-30

Cites

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

• People v. Poindexter
  California Supreme Court· 1958-10-24· cited 70×
• People v. Taylor
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-09-03· cited 51×
• Keller v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1927-10-22· cited 51×
• Letner v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1927-11-21· cited 48×
• Sheriff, Clark County v. Morris
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-03-01· cited 35×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-04-24· cited 35×
• State v. Mauldin
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1974-12-07· cited 31×
• Napier v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-03-10· cited 30×
• People v. Pinckney
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1972-02-07· cited 27×
• Tarvers v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1891-06-11· cited 26×
• State v. Dixon
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1973-07-06· cited 21×
• State v. Thomas
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1972-03-01· cited 21×
• People v. Pinckney
  New York Court of Appeals· 1973-04-26· cited 19×
• State v. Warwick
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1976-09-08· cited 13×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-11-29· cited 11×
• Whitlock v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-12-11· cited 11×
• Stallard v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1961-07-26· cited 10×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-12-06· cited 7×
• Grindstaff v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1964-03-05· cited 7×
• Farr v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1979-11-21· cited 7×