30 Tenn. App. 94 - Bates v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2011
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Canton Cotton Mills v. Bowman Overall Co. · 22 Tenn. App. 59 - Petway v. Loew's Nashville Knoxville Corporation · Phoenix Mut. Life Ins. v. Kingston Bank & Thust Co. · Kirshner v. Feigenbaum · 11 Tenn. App. 273 - Smith v. Fisher
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where an instrument is so drawn that, upon its face, it refers necessarily to some existing tract of land, and its terms can be applied to that one tract only, parol evidence may be employed to show where the tract so mentioned is located. But where the description employed, is one that must necessarily apply with equal exactness to any one of an indefinite number of tracts, parol evidence is not admissible to show that the parties intended to designate a particular tract by the description.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If there was a valid executory contract between vendor and purchaser, then in the eyes of equity ownership of realty passed to the purchaser even though no deed was executed, and in that event the vendor would hold legal title on a naked trust which would follow it into the hands of the vendor’s heirs on the vendor’s death, under the maxim that equity regards that done which ought to have been done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. Miller““It cannot be donbted tbat a valid enforcible contract may be created by the oral acceptance of a written offer to sell real property. Nor, for that matter, can it be doubted that where there is no plea of the statute of frauds a parol sale of real property is valid.” Bates v. Dennis, 30 Tenn.App. 94, 101 , 203 S.W.2d 928, 931 .”
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.