State v. Cribbs’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Ceballos (2003), State v. Reid (2002)
46 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Payne v. Tennessee
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Obviously, when only one person has been murdered, a jury verdict of guilt on more than one count of an indictment charging different means of committing first degree murder will support only one judgment of conviction....” State v. Cribbs, 967 S.W.2d 773, 788 (Tenn.1998); Carter v. State, 958 S.W.2d 620 , 624 n. 6 (Tenn.1997). . In State v. Ralph, 6 S.W.3d 251, 256 (Tenn.1999), this Court confirmed that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“1. The conduct complained of viewed in context and in light of the facts and circumstances of the case. 2. The curative measures undertaken by the court and the prosecution. 3. The intent of the prosecutor in making the improper statement. 4. The cumulative effect of the improper conduct and any other errors in the record. 5. The relative strength or weakness of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Richardson“11. The death penalty statutes prohibit the jury from being informed of the consequences of its failure to reach a unanimous verdict in the penalty phase in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 8, 9, 10, and 16 of the Tennessee Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thacker
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.