Cagle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably State v. Banks (1978), State v. Melson (1982)
26 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 Monts v. State · Jamison v. State · 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 1 - Webster v. State · Morrison v. State · Hughes 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * that the defendant secretly entered and concealed himself in the basement of the Briggs’ home on each of the two days prior to the deceased’s death; that on one of those two occasions, he attempted to get her to come to the basement where he had a table leg as a possible weapon by removing electrical fuses to interrupt the current in the house; that, failing in his first effort, in the forenoon of the day of her death, he lured her to the lake by telephoning her and falsely representing that his car was disabled and he and his wife were stranded, and that there someone strangled her with pieces of cloth which the defendant had taken from her basement and someone then transported her body to the quarry in Jefferson County; or that, after the defendant had deceitfully enticed her to the lake, someone then forcibly took her and lured her from the lake to the quarry where someone deliberately killed her after which the defendant or someone else hid her body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cagle v. Davis“It is always essential to the right to introduce a photograph in evidence that it have a relevant and material bearing upon some matter in controversy at the trial, and the party offering such evidence should establish its relevancy to the issue before the jury. A photograph which is entirely irrelevant and immaterial to any issue in the cause, and which is of such a character as to divert the minds of the jury to improper or irrelevant considerations or to prejudice the jury, should be excluded from evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cate“In this case, as noted, there is evidence from which the jury could justifiably find that the crime was committed partially in both Hamblen and Jefferson Counties. Consequently, the defendant was not prejudiced by the court’s failure to charge the jury this homicide victim was presumed to have been killed where her body was found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trusty
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.