State v. Robinson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “separate and distinct violations of the law receive separate and distinct punishments”
• affirming two consecutive sentences of life without the possibility of parole, noting that the defendant was not entitled to a “free murder”
• affirming trial court’s ordering defendant to serve two sentences of life without parole consecutively
• Defendant received consecutive life sentences for two first-degree murder convictions
• Defendant received consecutive life sentences for two first-degree murder convictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Brock
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-06-29· cited 53×
• State v. Samuel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-07-12· cited 31×
• Klaus Tschira and Gerda Tschira v. Ben H. Willingham, Jr. And Corim, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1998-02-03· cited 20×
• State of Tennessee v. Andre Benson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-08-02
• State of Tennessee v. Stephen Baker
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-07-17
• State of Tennessee v. Paul Robert Carrier, Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-18
• State of Tennessee v. William Patrick Peebles
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-06
• State of Tennessee v. Ernest Dodd
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-05-23
• State of Tennessee v. Michael David Fields
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-04-30
• State of Tennessee v. Zacheriah Holden
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-03-08
• State of Tennessee v. Shelly Minor
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-07-26
• State of Tennessee v. Marty Joe Kelley
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-07-12
• State of Tennessee v. Timothy Bryant Burton
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-12-07
• State of Tennessee v. Davis Bradley Waldroup, Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-10-20
• State of Tennessee v. Derek Williamson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-08-12
• State of Tennessee v. Tracy Thomas Hepburn
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-07-23
• State of Tennessee v. Starbrough Jones
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-09-25
• State of Tennessee v. Shawn Hatcher
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-08-29
• State of Tennessee v. Kevin Rudd
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-09-13
• State of Tennessee v. Thomas R. Cook, III
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-09-15

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Cabbage
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-10-10· cited 3,699×
• State v. Grace
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1973-04-16· cited 1,915×
• State v. Sheffield
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-08-27· cited 1,460×
• State v. Williams
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-08-29· cited 1,043×
• State v. Banks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-04-17· cited 765×
• Byrge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-08-29· cited 708×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-18· cited 479×
• State v. Duncan
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-09-09· cited 462×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-08-16· cited 438×
• Frost v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-08-26· cited 157×
• State v. Banes
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-10-20· cited 156×
• State v. Byrd
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-06-30· cited 139×
• State v. Hurley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-04-11· cited 106×
• State v. O'GUINN
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1986-03-24· cited 75×
• State v. Lawson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1985-01-09· cited 33×