State Supreme Court / Tenn.

State v. Black

Decided August 5, 1991. Lyle Reid wrote the opinion for the court.

815 S.W.2d 166 · Cited 445 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

In Re Kemmler · 136 U.S. 436
State v. Williams · 690 S.W.2d 517
State v. Ramseur · 524 A.2d 188
State v. Barber · 753 S.W.2d 659
Caldwell v. Mississippi · 472 U.S. 320
State v. Thompson · 768 S.W.2d 239
State v. Bobo · 727 S.W.2d 945
State v. Adkins · 725 S.W.2d 660
State v. Dicks · 615 S.W.2d 126
Cozzolino v. State · 584 S.W.2d 765
State v. Alley · 776 S.W.2d 506
State v. Campbell · 691 P.2d 929
State v. Pritchett · 621 S.W.2d 127
State v. Porterfield · 746 S.W.2d 441
State v. Caldwell · 671 S.W.2d 459
State v. Hines · 758 S.W.2d 515
State v. Williams · 657 S.W.2d 405
Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer · 454 A.2d 937
Wilkerson v. Utah · 99 U.S. 130
Stockton v. Commonwealth · 314 S.E.2d 371
State v. Coleman · 45 Ohio St. 3d 298
State v. Boyd · 797 S.W.2d 589
Marsh v. Henderson · 424 S.W.2d 193
Miller v. State · 584 S.W.2d 758
Houston v. State · 593 S.W.2d 267

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Black v. Bell · 181 F. Supp. 2d 832
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State v. Middlebrooks · 840 S.W.2d 317
State v. Reid · 164 S.W.3d 286
Van Tran v. State · 66 S.W.3d 790
State v. Howell · 868 S.W.2d 238
State v. Smith · 893 S.W.2d 908
State v. Harris · 844 S.W.2d 601
State v. Harris · 839 S.W.2d 54
State v. Blanton · 975 S.W.2d 269
State v. Van Tran · 864 S.W.2d 465
State of Tennessee v. Nickolus L. Johnson · 401 S.W.3d 1
State v. Reid · 213 S.W.3d 792
State v. Cazes · 875 S.W.2d 253
State v. Bush · 942 S.W.2d 489
State of Tennessee v. Nickolus L. Johnson
State v. Hall · 958 S.W.2d 679
State v. Mann · 959 S.W.2d 503
State v. Bane · 853 S.W.2d 483
State of Tennessee v. Corinio Pruitt · 415 S.W.3d 180
State v. Reid · 91 S.W.3d 247
State v. Vann · 976 S.W.2d 93
State v. Keen · 31 S.W.3d 196
State of Tennessee v. Ivory Gray
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