Irwin v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2016
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Alfred v. Bankers' Shippers' Ins. Co. · Goodloe v. Goodloe · W. C. Early Co. v. Williams · 26 Tenn. App. 71 - Hankins v. Waddell · Webb v. Shultz
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t was said at [Webb v. Shultz] page 241 of 184 Tenn. [235], at page 336 of 198 S.W.2d [333 (1946) ] “The rule that the partial performance of a parol contract will not relieve from the application of the statute has become a rule of property. Goodloe v. Goodloe, 116 Tenn. 252 , 92 S.W. 767 , 6 L.R.A., N.S., 703, 8 Ann.Cas. 112. “In Inman v. Tucker, 138 Tenn. 512 , 198 S.W. 247 , it was held that where one goes into possession under a parol donation, he occupies the same relation in respect to his possession as a purchaser by parol. “In Jennings v. Bishop, 3 Shan.Cas. 138, it was held that partial performance of a parol contract for the sale of land will not take the case out of the statute, and, therefore, neither the taking of possession of land by the parol vendee and permanently improving it, nor the payment of purchase money, will prevent the vendee from electing to avoid the contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Since the passage of the Married Women’s Emancipation Act, Code, sec. 8460 it cannot be said that the husband is a dominating personality in the tenancy. “To make the contract of sale good and valid it must have been signed by all of the owners by themselves, or someone lawfully authorized to sign their names for them, not by one of them alone. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It is well settled in this State that a husband cannot dispose of his wife's interest in an estate owned as by the tenants by the entirety, and cannot sell or encumber anything but his interest."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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