Acres v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1995
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 5 Smith & H. 364 - Dowdy v. State · Patmore v. State · Cronan v. State · English v. State · 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 668 - Walton v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is no doubt that these two offenses were committed at the same time and were parts of a single continuing act inspired by the same criminal intent essential to each offense, and were susceptible to but one punishment, and conviction of one is a bar to conviction of the other ..." 484 S.W.2d 537 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. State · State v. Briggs““The District Attorney was permitted to ask the defendant Acres about his pri- or acts of misconduct as a juvenile and about Juvenile Court proceedings. This was error and should not have been permitted, because on trial was a sixteen year old youth who, under the law, is clothed with innocence insofar as his juvenile record is concerned, and to allow the State to penetrate that armor of innocence which is thrown about him by Statute in a case of this nature is in our opinion clearly error and violative of the defendant’s rights. ****** “. . .to permit it would allow the State to reveal the juvenile record and the indiscretions of youth of a defendant on trial for his life. It would then be reasonable to assume that anyone who has committed a youthful indiscretion would hesitate to go on the witness stand in his own behalf, lest the revelation of the indiscretion might prejudice some jur- or or jurors against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cross v. State“"The acts of murder and robbery are inseparable. It is only because the murder was in the course of robbery that it was first degree. If the murder had been without intent of robbery it would have been a lesser degree, because the element of intent that makes it first degree is the intent to rob." Ibid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Black
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.