The writ of certiorari may be granted whenever authorized by law, and also in all cases where an inferior tribunal, board, or officer exercising judicial functions has exceeded the jurisdiction conferred, or is acting illegally, when, in the judgment of the court, there is no other plain, speedy, or adequate remedy. This section does not apply to actions governed by the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 27-8-101
Constitutional basis
Applied in 36 court decisions — leading case Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City (1985)
Most recently applied in State of Tennessee, on Relation of v. Calvin Howell v. Jimmy Farris (March 2018)
Code 1858, § 3123 (deriv
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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