Adams v. Roark’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2020
12 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 Moss v. Fortune · Brookins v. the Round Table, Inc. · Empress Health and Beauty Spa, Inc. v. Turner · 37 Tenn. App. 40 - Shew v. Bailey · 51 Tenn. App. 576 - Trailmobile, Inc. v. Chazen
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The practice of participants in motor racing events of releasing the promoters thereof from liability and of assuming liability for any injuries sustained is expressly approved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the case law and announced public policy of Tennessee favors freedom to contract against liability for negligence”
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.