26 Tenn. App. 120 - Lynch v. Burger’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2001
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Rockland-Rockport Lime Co. v. . Leary · Durfee House Furnishing Co. v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · Estate of Bisbee
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.
““When the party who has the power of making the election has elected, the whole is to be referred back to the original agreement, and the only difference is that the real estate is converted into personal at a future period.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eddington v. Turner“The foundation for the doctrine of equitable conversion is a presumed intention of the owner, equity regarding as done that which ought to be done.”
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.