Alexander v. Inman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding defendant’s affair with plaintiff’s wife, though inappropriate and unacceptable, did not constitute outrageous conduct as defined by our courts and the RESTATEMENT
• applying retroactively the Tennessee Supreme Court’s abolition of the common-law tort of alienation of -5- affections
• defendant’s adulterous affair with plaintiff’s wife and his perjury concerning these activities would not “in these days and times [be found by] an average member of the community . . . to be so atrocious that it goes beyond the bounds of decency”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Levy v. Franks
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-07-09· cited 58×
• Quinn v. Walsh
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-07-14· cited 41×
• Lisa Lynn Odom v. Claiborne County, Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2016-03-29· cited 10×
• Edward Joseph Warwick, Sr. v. Katherine Dodge Gribben Warwick
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-11-29
• Teresa L. Weaver v. Travis K. Pardue
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-10-28
• Richard A. Jones and Richard A. Jones, Jr. v. Jody W. Henderson
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-08-30
• John Doe 1 v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-09-22
• Wanda Steinbrunner v. Tuner Funeral Home, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-08-28
• Lineberry v. Locke
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-07-31
• Moore Construction Co. v. Story Engineering
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-07-10
• Patty M. Richards v. O'Connor Management, Incorporated and Russ Hackett
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-04-03
• Unnamed case
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-01-08
• Afsoon Vafaie (formerly) Jane Doe v. Walter R. Owens, III and wife, Cheryl Roberts Owens
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-09-06
• Timothy J. Pagliara v. Marlene Moses
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2020-02-20

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pemberton v. American Distilled Spirits Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1984-02-13· cited 91×
• Swallows v. Western Elec. Co., Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-11-15· cited 59×
• Dupuis v. Hand
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-04-22· cited 51×
• Humphries v. West End Terrace, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1990-03-30· cited 46×
• Hanover v. Ruch
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-04-15· cited 35×
• Bellar v. Baptist Hospital, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-01-03· cited 30×
• Inman v. Inman
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-04-22· cited 23×
• Bryan v. Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1986-05-23· cited 11×
• Owens v. Foote
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 9×