State v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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

• holding defendant could not offer evidence of assault and threat by victim upon third party where issue of self defense was not raised
• affirming dismissal of a potential juror who opposed the death penalty and “would consider imposing [it] ‘only if the Holy Spirit directed [her] to go that direction’”
• defendant directed another person to shoot victim in the back of the head; aggravating circumstances (2) and (7) applied to impose the death penalty
• Defendant was non-shooter, but provided murder weapon to shooter shortly before the killing.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Middlebrooks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-09-08· cited 519×
• State v. Dellinger
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-05-07· cited 210×
• State v. Branam
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-05-24· cited 91×
• State of Tennessee v. Detrick Cole
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-01-20· cited 89×
• State v. Harris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-04-15· cited 50×
• United States v. Corrinne Brown
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-05-06· cited 13×
• State of Tennessee v. Arthur T. Copeland
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-08-22
• Darrell Wayne Taylor v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-05-02
• State of Tennessee v. James A. Mellon
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-09-19
• State v. Andrade Bruce Williams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-12-01
• Gates v. Zant
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-30

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 1,617×
• State v. Goad
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1986-03-24· cited 126×
• State v. Coleman
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-07-27· cited 98×
• Flippen v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-02-07· cited 41×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-08-12· cited 27×
• State v. Sparks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-03-02· cited 25×
• Ellis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-07-14· cited 1×