Johnson v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Draper v. Great American Insurance Company · 63 Tenn. App. 518 - Osborne v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 46 Tenn. App. 581 - Wagner Ex Rel. Wagner v. Niven · 57 Tenn. App. 642 - Harvey v. Wheeler · North American Capital Corporation v. McCants
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen depositions or parts thereof are read in open court, the words read should be preserved as part of the evidence (bill of exceptions), or the deposition itself should be designated by the Trial Judge as a legitimate substitute therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benton v. Anderson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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