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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1965 / Served to 1972

Larry B. Creson

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Larry B. Creson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1972
Tenure: 1965–1972 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Creson authored 117 published opinions for the court (1965–1972), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hunter v. State (98 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. 57 of these were attributed to Creson 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
1969	Hunter v. State	440 S.W.2d 1	98
1970	Tartera v. Palumbo· Concurrence†	453 S.W.2d 780	81
1968	Hanover Insurance Company v. Haney	425 S.W.2d 590	72
1967	United Services Automobile Ass'n v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.	414 S.W.2d 836	41
1969	Kauffman v. AH Robins Company	448 S.W.2d 400	40
1968	State Ex Rel. Phillips v. Henderson	423 S.W.2d 489	39
1969	Chamberlain v. Brown	442 S.W.2d 248	35
1968	Edwards v. State	424 S.W.2d 783	34
1969	Tennessee Trailways, Inc. v. Ervin	438 S.W.2d 733	33
1966	Powell Ex Rel. Powell v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.· Dissent†	398 S.W.2d 727	33
1970	Ford Motor Company v. Eads	457 S.W.2d 28	32
1968	Patten v. State	426 S.W.2d 503	32
1966	Pryor v. State	400 S.W.2d 700	31
1972	Garey v. Garey	482 S.W.2d 133	30
1966	Knox v. Batson	399 S.W.2d 765	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 124 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 Larry B. Creson on?: Larry B. Creson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Sources

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6 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).