State v. Young

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]hreats of injury or death will not justify taking the life of the person making them, when he is doing nothing to put such threats into execution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Tennessee v. Christopher Michael Ferrell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2016-11-18
• State of Tennessee v. Lucian A. Clemmons
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-12-08

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Banks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-04-17· cited 765×
• Sherman v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1911-09-15· cited 60×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-06-19· cited 32×
• State v. Kennamore
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1980-09-08· cited 9×
• Rippy v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1858-12-15· cited 5×