State v. Terry

How courts have described this case

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

• the qualitative difference between the death penalty and all other punishments requires greater reliability in the sentencing determination
• when evidence is introduced into the sentencing calculation that potentially undermines the Eighth Amendment -27- reliability requirement, constitutional harmless error analysis should be employed
• because evidence of the invalid aggravating circumstance was introduced, and the defendant introduced strong mitigation proof and only one valid aggravator remained, this Court could not conclude that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt
• because evidence of the invalid aggravating circumstance was introduced, and the defendant introduced strong mitigation proof and only one valid aggravator remained, this Court could not conclude that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Henley v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 2,590×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-06-09· cited 1,162×
• State v. Howell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-10· cited 552×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 326×
• State v. Nichols
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-06-20· cited 322×
• State v. Van Tran
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-09-27· cited 288×
• State v. Morris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-07-10· cited 256×
• State v. Brimmer
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-02-07· cited 239×
• Leonard Edward Smith v. State of Tennessee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2011-12-19· cited 226×
• Terry v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-04-25· cited 226×
• Van Tran v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-12-04· cited 118×
• Van Tran v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-11-23· cited 76×
• Workman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-04-07· cited 68×
• State v. Pierce
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-06-22· cited 66×
• State v. Harris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-04-15· cited 50×
• Barber v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 45×
• State v. Boyd
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-01-05· cited 37×
• Harries v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-07-30· cited 35×
• United States v. Curtis
  U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review· 1993-08-31· cited 8×
• State of Tennessee v. Demariceo Chalmers
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-08-22