Thomas v. Million’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1981
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 25 Tenn. App. 401 - Glascock v. Mansfield · 28 Tenn. App. 517 - Chambers v. Percefull · Pyles v. Cole · 28 Tenn. App. 40 - Winn v. Wright · Wooldridge v. McFadden
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. .. The Chancellor found that the Co-wells agreed to buy on condition the price be reduced by the amount of the commissions which would be due complainant in case of sale by him. On that date defendant wrote complainant a letter terminating the agency contract and on July 5, 1950, the Cowells agreed to purchase the property for $15,500. The Chancellor found as a fact that defendant terminated the listing contract in order to avoid the payment of commissions and negotiated with the Cowells while the listing was in full force and effect and “perpetrated a fraud upon the complainant.” 35 Tenn.App. at 606 , 250 S.W.2d 111 .”
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.