Maddox v. Webb Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2001
8 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 Lazarov v. Klyce · 10 Smith & H. 429 - Deaver v. J. C. Mahan Motor Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““-The parol evidence rule in Tennessee is not a rule of evidence merely, but is a rule of substantive law and no exception nor assignment of error is necessary to ensure its application. Lazarov v. Klyce, 195 Tenn. 27 , 255 S.W.2d 11 (1953); Deaver v. J. C. Mahan Motor Co., 163 Tenn. 429 , 43 S.W.2d 199 (1931).” Id. 201.”
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.