Deaton v. Vise’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Lattimore Land Corp. (1981), Agricultural Services Ass'n v. Ferry-Morse Seed Co. (1977)
29 federal appellate · 19 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 Seeman v. Philadelphia Warehouse Co. · Thomas G. Jewett, Jr. Inc. v. Keystone Driller Co. · Peabody Ins. v. Wilson & Beasley · Tom v. Price · Family Loan Co. of Nashville v. Hickerson
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [A] contract is presumed to be made with reference to the law of the place where it was entered into unless it appears it was entered into in good faith with reference to the law of some other state.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nder Tennessee choice of law principles, the law of the place where the contract was signed applies in the absence of any statement specifying a different state.” Defendants’ Memorandum of Points and Authorities at 15. Plaintiffs merely argued, without expressing a view on which law would be applicable, that the law of both states makes voidable a release procured by fraud. Plaintiffs’ Memorandum in Opposition to Motion for Summary Judgment at 29. 9 . It is true, as defendants noted, that Tennessee courts have said that a contract is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“parties may agree to be bound by the laws of another state when the agreement is made in good faith and the contract is referable thereto . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.