State v. Shaw

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence showing that the defendant was guilty of robbery or no offense at all did not justify a jury instruction on the offense of assault
• courtroom closed during closing arguments to prevent people who would be arriving for judge’s daily calendar call from distracting from arguments

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Easterling
  Washington Supreme Court· 2006-06-29· cited 167×
• People v. Woodward
  California Supreme Court· 1992-12-21· cited 86×
• People v. Esquibel
  California Court of Appeal· 2006-09-28· cited 3×
• State v. Nathan Lee Colquit
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-03-16
• State of Tennessee v. Arnold v. Porter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-01-05
• State of Tennessee v. Justin David Whaley
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-12-10

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Whitwell v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-01-20· cited 66×
• Canady v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-02-03· cited 26×
• Woodson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-12-07· cited 8×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-08-20· cited 7×
• Watson v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1933-06-24· cited 6×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1979-11-29· cited 5×