1 Tenn. Crim. App. 652 - Tooley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A defendant may make illegally seized evidence admissible by his testimony on direct examination. Walder v. United States, 347 U.S. 62 , 74 S.Ct. 354 , 98 L. Ed. 503 . See Lester v. State, 216 Tenn. 615 , 393 S.W.2d 288 ; Burks v. State, 194 Tenn. 675 , 254 S.W.2d 970 ; Batchelor v. State, 213 Tenn. 649 , 378 S.W.2d 751 ; 29 Am.Jur.2d Evidence, Sec. 416. He has done this and is now precluded from questioning the search.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brown v. State

2. ““On cross-examination, the assistant attorney general was permitted to ask the defendant if he had raped a woman in Okinawa. He denied it, and the prosecutor stopped questioning him on that subject. Later the defendant brought it up and voluntarily explained an incident in Okinawa without objection of his counsel. If there was any error here, it was harmless.” Tooley v. State, 448 S.W.2d at 686 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tooley v. State