Amos v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2019
5 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute was in force when the appellant purchased this property on October, 5, 1946. The right of action thereunder dated from this, date. Suit was filed herein on October 16, 1947, or more than one year after the cause of action accrued. This statute authorized a civil suit by buyers against sellers who violate maximum sales prices. It is the only statute or regulation we know of wherein such a suit is authorized. This statute which prescribes a right of action also prescribes the time within which this right may be exercised. That is, the buyer ‘may, within one year from the date of the occurrence of the violation, bring an action * * * To say that the right ‘may’ be exercised within the prescribed■ time is to preclude the idea that it may be exercised at some later time.” Amos v. Carson, 1948, Tenn.Sup., 210 S.W.2d 677, 679 . (Emphasis added).”
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.