State Supreme Court / Tenn.

In Re Swanson

Decided October 4, 1999. William M. Barker wrote the opinion for the court.

2 S.W.3d 180 · Cited 433 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Quilloin v. Walcott · 434 U.S. 246
In Re Adoption of Female Child · 896 S.W.2d 546
Nale v. Robertson · 871 S.W.2d 674
Hawk v. Hawk · 855 S.W.2d 573
State v. Tester · 879 S.W.2d 823
Leech v. American Booksellers Ass'n, Inc. · 582 S.W.2d 738
State v. Hudson · 562 S.W.2d 416
Petrosky v. Keene · 898 S.W.2d 726
Metropolitan Government of Nashville v. Poe · 215 Tenn. 53
Adoption of Bowling v. Bowling · 631 S.W.2d 386
In the matter of: Bianca Arneshe Askew, Dorothy Lewis v. Julie Donoho · 993 S.W.2d 1
State v. Driver · 598 S.W.2d 774
Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes, Inc. v. Swanson · 2 S.W.3d 180

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