Brewer v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2009
4 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 Robinson v. Trousdale County · 34 Tenn. App. 154 - McClure v. Wade · Campbell v. Miller · Duke v. Hopper
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A proper party is not the same as a necessary or indispensable party. Only a party who will be directly affected by a decree and whose interest is not represented by any other party to the litigation is an indispensable or necessary party, that is, one without which no valid decree may be entered settling the rights between the parties that are before the Court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Failure to include Trustee named in the trust deed securing a note executed by the property owners and placed upon their tract of land subsequent to their purchase of the land was not fatal to an action by the owners of adjacent property to quiet title to property erroneously described as belonging to the owners under a Chancery Court deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilley v. Jernigan
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.