State v. Thornton

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] lawyer should not assert his or her personal opinion as to the credibility of a witness, or as to the accused’s guilt or innocence.”
• “[A] lawyer should not assert his or her personal opinion as to the credibility of a witness, or as to the accused’s guilt or innocence.”
• court evaluation of improper and inflammatory closing argument

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Reid
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-12-19· cited 1,120×
• State v. Thacker
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-04-27· cited 449×
• State v. Goltz
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-01-15· cited 362×
• State v. Reid
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-05-24· cited 253×
• State of Tennessee v. Hubert Glenn Sexton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-05-29· cited 247×
• State v. Watkins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-03-09· cited 232×
• State v. Austin
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-09-16· cited 197×
• State v. Reid
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2006-12-27· cited 137×
• State of Tennessee v. Noura Jackson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2014-08-22· cited 124×
• STATE of Tennessee v. Marcus RICHARDS
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2009-07-10· cited 79×
• State of Tennessee v. Robert Fusco
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-12-06· cited 44×
• People v. Smith
  California Supreme Court· 2003-12-22· cited 42×
• State v. Armstrong
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-01-24· cited 21×
• Thompson v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2004-05-12· cited 10×
• United States v. Scheur
  E.D. Louisiana· 2008-04-24· cited 2×
• State of Tennessee v. William Lance Walker
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-09-27
• State of Tennessee v. Russell Dean Long and Jessica Renee Adkins
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-09-27
• State of Tennessee v. Kenneth Lewis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-05-13
• State of Tennessee v. Michael David Fields
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-04-30
• State of Tennessee v. Neil Vader
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-03-28

Cites

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

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• State v. Cabbage
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-10-10· cited 3,699×
• State v. Williams
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-08-29· cited 1,043×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-21· cited 732×
• Byrge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-08-29· cited 708×
• State v. Bigbee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 691×
• Callanan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-02-20· cited 584×
• Duchac v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1973-12-17· cited 556×
• State v. Jones
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-08-29· cited 540×
• Judge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-03-19· cited 475×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1987-07-21· cited 357×
• Gray v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-06-01· cited 309×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-05-30· cited 307×
• Harrington v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-01-06· cited 306×
• State v. Anthony
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-09-23· cited 280×
• State v. Denton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-12-02· cited 244×
• State v. Martin
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-03-17· cited 242×
• State v. Middlebrooks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-07-06· cited 171×
• State v. Taylor
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-09-28· cited 154×