4 Tenn. App. 71 - Glisson v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the last place, defendant insists that the complainant was also negligent, and for that reason cannot recover. Under the circumstances of this transaction we do not think this doctrine applies. If he had received the policy and failed to read it, as between complainant and the insurance company, the rule could no doubt be invoked, but considering that the defendant was acting for complainant; that complainant relied on the defendant who had much more knowledge as to the matter in hand than complainants, the hurry and lack of opportunity for examination when it was signed and the difficulty of an amateur understanding such a paper suddenly, not to mention the fact that it was not filled up until afterwards, when Stone could take all the time he wanted, but Glisson did not see the application again, we think the court cannot be required to hold complainants estopped and deny them relief on this ground. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 29 Tenn. App. 602 - Routh v. Sanders