State v. Townsend

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the flight instruction was warranted where the defendant escaped from the Lake County Jail by holding a razor to another inmate’s throat and fleeing once the cell door opened
• holding that a witness’s unsolicited remark identifying the offense as a “Class X felony,” a category of crimes formerly assigned to the most serious non-homicide crimes, was cured by the trial court’s prompt instruction to disregard it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Roberts
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1988-03-31· cited 246×
• Cooke v. Morrison
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-14· cited 20×
• Moses v. Carnahan
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-03-28· cited 11×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Cabbage
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-10-10· cited 3,699×
• State v. Strouth
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-06-08· cited 106×
• State v. Jefferson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-11-10· cited 100×
• Brooks v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-07-17· cited 71×
• State v. Tyler
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1980-02-19· cited 56×
• Sommerville v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-03-10· cited 44×
• Craig v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-02-27· cited 15×
• State v. Taylor
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-08-11· cited 10×