State v. Harrison

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “One of the accepted rules of statutory interpretation is that courts must presume that the legislature in enacting the provision in question did not intend an absurdity, and that such a result must be avoided, if possible, by reasonable construction of the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Vasser
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-08-19· cited 64×
• State of Tennessee v. Deandre Blake - Concurring
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-09-23
• State of Tennessee v. Jarus Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2015-08-06
• Nikolaus Johnson v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-05-14
• State of Tennessee v. Ricky L. Helmick, Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2021-03-23
• State of Tennessee v. Brandon Scott Donaldson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2022-04-21

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Key v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-03-13· cited 62×
• State v. Netto
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1972-11-06· cited 48×
• Epstein v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-04-03· cited 35×
• Roddy Manufacturing Co. v. Olsen
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-12-19· cited 25×
• State v. McLerran
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1980-09-02· cited 7×