State v. Wood

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Davidson County Criminal Court lacked jurisdiction to hear an appeal of contempt charges from a general sessions court because such proceedings are not “fully -4- criminal”
• recognizing that criminal contempt is not initiated by an indictment or presentment
• holding that criminal contempt need not be initiated by indictment or presentment
• stating that the sentence imposed for contempt “must ‘be the least severe measure necessary to achieve the purpose for which the sentence is imposed’”
• percentage-of-service provisions of Sentencing Act did not apply in to criminal contempt sentence arising from underlying civil case
• “[Criminal contempt] is enough of a crime that the double jeopardy provisions of the state and federal constitutions prohibit a subsequent contempt prosecution after a contempt proceeding starts and comes to an inconclusive end in another court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Tracy Rose Baker v. State of Tennessee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-09-06· cited 92×
• State ex. rel. Flowers v. Tennessee Trucking Ass'n Self Insurance Group Trust
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-04-18· cited 67×
• Moody v. Hutchison
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-05-25· cited 64×
• Overnite Transportation Co. v. Teamsters Local Union No. 480
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-06-08· cited 58×
• In re Sneed
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-01-26· cited 41×
• Desiree M. Beyer v. Erik A. Beyer
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-04-05· cited 28×
• Edith Wenczl Simpkins v. Otto Kent Simpkins
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-02-27· cited 24×
• Sliger v. Sliger
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-06-16· cited 5×
• O'Rourke v. O'Rourke
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-07-07· cited 5×
• State v. Godsey
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-09-27· cited 4×
• S.A.M.D. v. J.P.D.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-09-30
• Stacy Christina Knellinger v. Mark Steven Knellinger and Becki Knellinger
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-08-29
• State of Tennessee ex rel. Tonya Dotson v. Donald Howard
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-05-28
• State of Tennessee v. Elder Mark Anthony Thornton
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-01-29
• John Wesley Green v. Champs-Elysees, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-04-09
• State of Tennessee, ex rel., Tonia M. Bernard v. Robert E. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-10-09
• State of Tennessee v. Adrian Hill
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-09-05
• Brandi Nicole Sosebee v. John Charles Sosebee, Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-05-04
• April Amanda Worley v. Richard Thomas Whitaker
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-03-31
• Vicki Brown v. Antione Batey
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-08-09

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Ashby
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-12-23· cited 3,586×
• United States v. United Mine Workers of America
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-06· cited 2,872×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 426×
• Gray v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-06-01· cited 309×
• Archer v. Archer
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-04-21· cited 249×
• In Re Michael
  Supreme Court· 1945-11-05· cited 230×
• Dishmon v. Shelby State Community College
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-10-15· cited 177×
• Storey v. Storey
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-01-17· cited 171×
• State v. Palmer
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-06-05· cited 169×
• Ahern v. Ahern
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-03-20· cited 160×
• State v. Taylor
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-09-28· cited 154×
• State v. Sammons
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-05-24· cited 69×
• Wilson v. Wilson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-12-21· cited 61×
• State v. Harris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-12-07· cited 59×
• Shiflet v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1966-03-02· cited 52×
• State ex rel. Anderson v. Daugherty
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1916-12-15· cited 36×
• State v. Winningham
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-29· cited 28×
• Cable v. Clemmons
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-01-03· cited 27×
• Dispeker v. New Southern Hotel Company
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-12-05· cited 26×
• Hutchison v. Pyburn
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-04-29· cited 26×