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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 40 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 Sherrod v. Wix.

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1 Sherrod v. Wix Anchor
tennctapp · 1992
green “this court cannot review the facts de novo without an appellate record containing the facts, and therefore, we must assume that the record, had it been preserved, would have contained sufficient evidence to support the trial court's factual findings.” 23
2 Sherrod v. Wix
tennctapp · 1992
green “we must assume that the record, had it been preserved, would have contained sufficient evidence to support the trial court's factual findings.” 13
3 Fayne v. Vincent
tenn · 2009
green “when an issue of sufficiency of the evidence is raised on appeal, we must presume, in the absence of a record of the proceedings, that the transcript or statement of the evidence, had it been included in the record, would have contained sufficient evidence to support the trial c…” 4

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