Staggs v. Herff Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably 35 Colo. App. 196 - Stroh v. American Recreation & Mobile Home Corp. (1975), Moore v. Howard Pontiac-American, Inc. (1972)
28 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 Rojas v. Rojas · 30 Tenn. App. 377 - Black v. Love & Amos Coal Co. · Shousha v. Matthews Drivurself Service, Inc. · State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Cone · State ex rel. Pitts v. Nashville Baseball Club
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) where it is upon an issue not proper to be referred (State ex rel, [Weaver] v. Bolt, 130 Tenn. 212 , 169 S.W. 761 ); (2) where it is based on an error of law (Hord, v. Holston River Railroad [Co.], 122 Tenn. 399 , 123 S.W. 637 , 19 Ann.Cas. 331, 135 Am.St.Rep. 878 ); (3) where it is upon a question of law or mixed fact and law (Dale v. Hartman, 157 Tenn. 60 , 6 S.W.2d 319 ); or (4) where it is not supported by any material evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Unless displaced by the particular provisions of Chapters 1 through 9 of this title, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy, or other validating or invalidating cause shall supplement its provisions.””
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.