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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 28 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Caldwell.

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1 State v. Caldwell Anchor
tenncrimapp · 2002
green “no particular act need be shown, and the defendant need not have taken a physical part in the crime in order to be held criminally responsible.” 12
2 State v. Sherman
tenn · 2008
green “defendants convicted under a theory of criminal responsibility are considered to be principal offenders, just as if they had committed the crime themselves.” 6
3 State v. Carson
tenn · 1997
green “requires that a defendant act with a culpable mental state, i.e., the 'intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense or to benefit in the proceeds or results of the offense.” 6
4 State v. Howard
tenn · 2000
green “extends the scope of criminal liability to the target crime intended by a defendant as well as to other crimes committed by a confederate that were the natural and probable consequences of the commission of the original crime.” 4

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