40 Tenn. App. 525 - Lowe v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1997
6 federal appellate · 11 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 Texas Co. v. Aycock · Figuers v. Fly · Cobble v. Langford · Conaway v. New York Life Ins. Co. · Nashville Trust Co. v. Grimes
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.
“There was no proof of any writing authorizing Parrish as agent to execute the deed for the Lowes, and the proof was that he had no such authority. It seems that at the time of the taking of the proof in this case Parrish had been convicted and imprisoned and was not available as a witness. The Lowes said he had no such authority and that the deed was a forgery. Being a forgery, it was, as they contend, utterly void and passed no title to the Wrights, [emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beazley v. Turgeon
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.