State v. Wright

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant shot victim in the head and stole victim’s car; aggravating circumstance (i)(7) applied to impose the death penalty
• defendant convicted of premeditated first degree murder in shooting deaths of victims and sentenced to death on the basis of a single aggravating circumstance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Odom
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-06-03· cited 1,978×
• State v. Brown
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-06-01· cited 781×
• State v. Howell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-10· cited 552×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-18· cited 479×
• State v. Teel
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1990-05-29· cited 454×
• State v. Black
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-08-05· cited 445×
• State v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 326×
• State v. Nichols
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-06-20· cited 322×
• State v. Jordan
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-09-22· cited 318×
• State v. Morris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-07-10· cited 256×
• State v. Cauthern
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-03-23· cited 254×
• State v. Brimmer
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-02-07· cited 239×
• State v. Boyd
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1990-09-24· cited 185×
• State v. Hutchison
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 182×
• State v. Keen
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-07-08· cited 147×
• State of Tennessee v. Howard Hawk Willis
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2016-07-06· cited 112×
• State v. Jones
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1990-04-02· cited 110×
• State v. Edwards
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-03-25· cited 101×
• State of Tennessee v. Detrick Cole
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-01-20· cited 89×
• Wright v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-02-01· cited 28×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• State v. Williams
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 252×
• State v. Dicks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-02-02· cited 214×
• Demps v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-13· cited 150×
• State v. Carter
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1986-06-09· cited 148×
• State v. Pritchett
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-08-03· cited 127×
• State v. McKay
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-11-19· cited 126×
• State v. King
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1986-07-28· cited 124×
• State v. Groseclose
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-02-27· cited 119×
• State v. Teague
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-10-29· cited 73×
• State v. Laney
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 60×
• Blackburn v. Murphy
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-08-31· cited 58×