Staten v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that an appellate court’s “expressions on certain things . . . which are not necessary for a determination of the lawsuit” are “known as dictum” and are not controlling “when the question rises again”
• noting that Tennessee Supreme Court does not “render advisory opinions on questions which are premature and contingent and may never arise in the future”
• noting that Tennessee Supreme Court does not \render advisory opinions on questions which are premature and contingent and may never arise in the future\
• providing that dicta is an expression by a court that is “not necessary for a determination of the lawsuit” and is “not binding as an authority or a precedent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Donriel A. Borne v. Celadon Trucking Services, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2017-10-20· cited 59×
• State v. Rogers
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1985-06-28· cited 54×
• Shelley v. Gipson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1966-03-02· cited 45×
• Eady v. Morgan
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-02-13· cited 30×
• State of Tennessee v. Susan Jo Walls
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2017-11-09· cited 26×
• Dotson v. Blake
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-10-04· cited 21×
• Wandersee v. Brellenthin Chevrolet Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1960-04-14· cited 18×
• City of Memphis v. Overton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-04-07· cited 17×
• Frost v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1958-05-02· cited 12×
• Whitehorn v. Dickerson
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1967-09-29· cited 11×
• Simmons v. Culpepper
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-08-30· cited 11×
• Bellar v. National Motor Fleets, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1970-01-16· cited 8×
• Fite v. Wood
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1952-07-11· cited 3×
• Textile Workers Union v. Brookside Mills, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1960-06-29· cited 2×
• John Jay Hooker, on behalf of himself and others v. Governor Bill Haslam
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-07-27· cited 1×
• Ayers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-12-10· cited 1×
• First Community Bank, N.A. v. First Tennessee Bank, N.A.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-08-20
• Kevin Wilkins v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-04-18
• Michael Scott Evans v. Karen Marie Bisson Steeman - Dissenting
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-10-02
• Individual Healthcare Specialists, Inc. v. BlueCross BlueShield Of Tennessee, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2017-05-15