A history of the Tennessee Supreme Court
By: James W. Ely, Jr., editor ; with Theodore Brown, Jr. ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ely, James W., 1938-; Brown, Theodore, Jr.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
Subjects: Tennessee. Supreme Court -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-448) and index.
"Sponsored by Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, Inc."
Table of contents: title: The formative period in the history of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1796-1835 / Theodore Brown Jr.; title: Judicial independence in an age of democracy, sectionalism, and war, 1835-1865 / Timothy S. Huebner; title: The Tennessee Supreme Court during reconstruction and redemption / R. Ben Brown; title: The Tennessee Supreme Court, 1886-1910 / James W. Ely Jr.; title: A free and untrammelled judiciary : the Tennessee Supreme Court, 1910-1946 / Ruth Anne Thompson; title: The Tennessee Supreme Court, 1946-1974 : tranquillity amid a national judicial revolution / John R. Vile; title: The Tennessee Supreme Court and the struggle for independence, accountability, and modernization, 1974-1998 / Carl A.Pierce.