State v. Williams

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 state’s argument that state’s witnesses’ houses were burned as a form of intimidation was improper in the absence of any evidence of the reasons that the houses burned
• determining that the instruction was cons titutiona l, but tha t the evid ence did not suppo rt its applicatio n
• reversing finding of aggravating circumstance in penalty phase because evidence supporting this circumstance violated Bruton
• holding no error in allowing testimony of lay witness as to signature
• applying Jackson v. Virginia standard of review in determining sufficiency of the evidence to support application of aggravating circumstance
• defining the terms heinous, atrocious, cruel, torture, and depravity of mind

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Bland
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-01· cited 3,458×
• State v. Odom
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-06-03· cited 1,978×
• State v. Harris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-05-11· cited 1,328×
• State v. Rice
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2006-02-22· cited 1,119×
• State v. Cazes
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-02-14· cited 901×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1989-06-12· cited 868×
• State v. Vasques
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2007-03-09· cited 744×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-21· cited 732×
• State v. Majors
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-09-03· cited 573×
• State v. Howell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-10· cited 552×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-18· cited 479×
• State v. Pike
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-10-05· cited 465×
• State v. Black
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-08-05· cited 445×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-11-15· cited 443×
• State v. Robinson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2004-09-28· cited 423×
• State v. Hodges
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-04-28· cited 358×
• State v. Vann
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-21· cited 357×
• State v. Leach
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2004-09-08· cited 351×
• State v. Bane
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-07-03· cited 328×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 326×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-08-16· cited 438×
• State v. Gretzler
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-01-06· cited 374×
• Lanza v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-04· cited 368×
• State v. Dicks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-02-02· cited 214×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• State v. Pritchett
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-08-03· cited 127×
• State v. Preston
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1984-05-15· cited 125×
• State v. Harrington
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-12-28· cited 114×
• State v. Ortiz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-11-23· cited 110×
• State v. Strouth
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-06-08· cited 106×
• State v. Richmond
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-05-12· cited 95×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-03· cited 90×