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Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1965 / Served to 1969

Chester C. Chattin

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Chester C. Chattin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1907 · age 119
Tenure: 1965–1969 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Sewanee-The University of the South
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Chattin authored 100 published opinions for the court (1965–1974), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Grace (1,915 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. 30 of these were attributed to Chattin 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
1973	State v. Grace	493 S.W.2d 474	1,915
1965	Boyce v. Williams	389 S.W.2d 272	84
1967	Jamison v. State	416 S.W.2d 768	79
1965	Bledsoe v. State	387 S.W.2d 811	74
1967	Morgan v. State	415 S.W.2d 879	68
1968	Estrin v. Moss	430 S.W.2d 345	66
1974	Ford Motor Company v. Moulton	511 S.W.2d 690	65
1968	State Ex Rel. Balsinger v. Town of Madisonville	435 S.W.2d 803	64
1972	Tidwell v. Servomation-Willoughby Company	483 S.W.2d 98	49
1965	Arterburn v. State	391 S.W.2d 648	49
1968	Bloodworth v. Stuart Ex Rel. Stuart	428 S.W.2d 786	46
1967	New Rivieria Arts Theatre v. State Ex Rel. Davis	412 S.W.2d 890	46
1966	Schweizer v. State	399 S.W.2d 743	46
1968	Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n v. Cox Ex Rel. Cox	425 S.W.2d 597	43
1972	Holt v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.	486 S.W.2d 734	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 101 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 Chester C. Chattin on?: Chester C. Chattin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Sources

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4 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).