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State v. Buggs

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Citation
995 S.W.2d 102
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
62 of 62
Citing cases (total)
62
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. State v. Buggs remains good law after all 62 flagged citations were read; none shows adverse treatment. Later Tennessee courts applied its rule requiring appellate deference to the jury and its rule on when intent to commit the underlying felony must arise.
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Other courts also used Buggs as support for the felony murder timing rule. References to overruling described Buggs's treatment of Mullendore or changes to other cases; the repeated statutory history concerned State v. Cabbage.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

62 later cases cite State v. Buggs; 62 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.

Every one of the 62 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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