21 Tenn. App. 448 - McDowell v. Rambo’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2000
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.
Relationships
Relies on National Bank v. Case · Pauly v. State Loan & Trust Co. · Forrest v. Jack · Early v. Richardson · Ohio Valley National Bank v. John Hulitt
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.
“Evidence of the terms of an agreement is better afforded by the acts of the parties under it while harmonious and practical construction reflects their intention, than when subsequent differences have impelled them to resort to law, and one of them then seeks a construction at variance with the practical construction they have placed upon it of what was intended by its provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.