Evens v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1997
15 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 Smith v. Tucker · 17 Tenn. App. 648 - Nashville Gas & Heating Co. v. Phillips · Willcox v. Hines · 3 Smith & H. 243 - H. T. Hackney Co. v. Robert E. Lee Hotel · Conway v. Philadelphia Gas Works Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“""Whatever may be the reason, no case can be' found in the books where the vendor has been held liable in damages to the vendee or to third persons, for personal injuries arising from defects in the premises. "Whether this be on grounds of public policy, or because the rule of caveat emptor governs, and no warranty will be implied (Williston on Contracts, vol. 2, sec. 926), or whether it be because the precedent negotiations are supplanted by the deed when the vendee receives it (27 R. C. L. 529), or whether the reason is to be found in the fact that the delivery of the deed practically terminates the relation of vendor and purchaser, whereas the relation of landlord and tenant is a continuing one, or whether such damages are not supposed to be within the reasonable contemplation of the parties — whatever be the reason, the fact remains.” Smith v. Tucker, supra, 151 Tenn. at page 362 , 270 S. W. at p. 70.”
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.