State v. McJunkin’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
August 1999
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Swanner v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The General Sessions Court is not a court of record in Tennessee. There are no signed minutes or other means of verifying a judgment that is not complete on its face. An unsigned judgment is void and cannot be used as proof of a prior conviction for the purpose of enhancing the sentence for a subsequent conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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