Worrall v. Kroger Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that when the Business Tax Act was enacted “the legislature undertook to create a system of . . . taxation upon the privilege of engaging in certain types of business activities”
• The intent of a statute “is to be ascertained primarily from the natural and ordinary meaning of the language used, when read in the context of the entire statute, without any forced or subtle construction to limit or extend the import of the language.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Owens v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-10-23· cited 507×
• State v. Garrison
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-11-22· cited 321×
• ARC LifeMed, Inc. v. AMC-Tennessee, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-08-02· cited 178×
• United States v. Simpson
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-04-03· cited 93×
• Austin v. Memphis Publishing Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-08-01· cited 72×
• LensCrafters, Inc. v. Sundquist
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-12-13· cited 65×
• Dunn v. Hackett
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-01-08· cited 65×
• McGee v. Best
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-06-18· cited 63×
• Chrisman v. Hill Home Development, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-10-26· cited 60×
• City of Caryville v. Campbell County
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-08-18· cited 55×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-09-20· cited 55×
• Tuggle v. Allright Parking Systems, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-05-06· cited 54×
• Memphis Publishing Co. v. Holt
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1986-05-12· cited 42×
• Steed Realty v. Oveisi
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1991-05-08· cited 38×
• Hamblen County Education Ass'n v. Hamblen County Board of Education
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-10-14· cited 36×
• Azbill v. Azbill
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-09-09· cited 35×
• Perry v. Sentry Insurance Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-12-23· cited 35×
• Plough, Inc. v. Premier Pneumatics, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-06-30· cited 33×
• Oliver v. King
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-02-02· cited 31×
• McClain v. Henry I. Siegel Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-07-06· cited 30×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Moto-Pep, Inc. v. McGoldrick
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1957-05-03· cited 26×
• State Ex Rel. Rector v. Wilkes
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1968-12-06· cited 23×
• Rose v. Blewett
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1957-04-01· cited 15×
• Moto-Pep v. McGoldrick
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1957-06-07· cited 5×