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Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1923 / Served to 1947

Alexander Wilds Chambliss

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Alexander Wilds Chambliss was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1864–1947
Tenure: 1923–1947 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Chambliss authored 617 published opinions for the court (1923–1947), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Durham v. States (128 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 37 of these were attributed to Chambliss by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1945	Durham v. States	188 S.W.2d 555	128
1945	McCanless, Com'r v. Klein	188 S.W.2d 745	108
1942	Baird v. Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co.	162 S.W.2d 384	108
1946	Ford Motor v. Wagoner	192 S.W.2d 840	89
1944	Lea Et Ux. v. State	181 S.W.2d 351	76
1945	DeFord v. National Life & Accident Ins.	185 S.W.2d 617	71
1944	Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. v. Jackson	181 S.W.2d 625	69
1944	Corlew v. State	180 S.W.2d 900	60
1938	Arrowood v. McMinn County	121 S.W.2d 566	60
1943	Wrather v. State	169 S.W.2d 854	58
1938	Elliott Et Ux. v. State	116 S.W.2d 1009	58
1944	Inter-City Trucking Co. v. Daniels	178 S.W.2d 756	57
1938	Ill. Cent. R. Co. v. Nichols	118 S.W.2d 213	57
1929	Peerless Construction Co. v. Bass	14 S.W.2d 732	57
1928	Brenizer v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway	3 S.W.2d 1053	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 631 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Alexander Wilds Chambliss on?: Alexander Wilds Chambliss was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

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24 years on the Supreme Court of Tennessee. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).