Dunn v. Palermo’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2016
14 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 Reed v. Reed · 5 Cal. 3d 1 - Sail'er Inn, Inc. v. Kirby · Romans v. State of Maryland · Brown v. Selby · Quarles v. Sutherland
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court in the past has not hesitated to depart from the rigid common law where “the reason for the common law rule does not exist.” Brown v. Shelby, 206 Tenn. 71 , 332 S.W.2d 166 (1960). The common law does not have the force of Holy Writ; it is not a last will and testament, nor is it a cadaver embalmed in perpetuity, nor is it to be treated like the sin of Judah — “written with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond.” Jeremiah 17:1. Former Chief Justice Frantz of Colorado, in his dissenting opinion in Tesone v. School Dist. No. Re-2, In County of Boulder, 152 Colo. 596 , 384 P.2d 82 (1963), made this erudite observation on the common law: “The common law of America is evolutionary; it is not static and immutable. It is in constant growth, going through mutations in adapting itself to changing conditions and in improving and refining doctrine. By its very nature, it seeks perfection in the achievement of justice.” This is an eloquent description of the greatness and the glory of the common law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“. [5] People ex rel. Rago v. Lipsky, 327 Ill. App. 63 , 63 N.E.2d 642 (1945). [6] Freeman v. Hawkins, 77 Tex. 498 , 14 S.W. 364 (1890). [7] Dunn v. Palermo, 522 S.W.2d 679 (Tenn. 1975); Arnold, Personal Names, 15 Yale L.J. 227 (1905). [8] State ex rel. Krupa v. Green, 114 Ohio App. 497 , 177 N.E.2d 616 (1961). [9]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“as it stood at (1776) and before the separation of the colonies ... (it) being derived from North Carolina, out of which state the State of Tennessee was carved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alley
How this case has been treated — in progress
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