Dixie Savings Stores, Inc. v. Turner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “if a party makes a general appearance and does not take issue with venue, adequacy of service of process, personal jurisdiction, or other similar matters . . .,” then that party has waived its objections
• observing that “[p]ersonal jurisdiction is obtained by service of process or by a party’s voluntary appearance in a case”
• the disclosure of general concepts does not nullify a trade secret claim to specific algorithms
• “[A]ll appearances are deemed to be general appearances unless the contrary appears.”
• “[I]f a party makes a general appearance and does not take issue with venue, adequacy of service of process, personal jurisdiction, or other similar matters, the courts customarily find that the party has waived its objections to these matters.”
• “Thus, if a party makes a general appearance and does not take issue with venue, adequacy of service of process, personal jurisdiction, or other similar matters, the courts customarily find that the party has waived its objections to these matters.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Landers v. Jones
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-02-23· cited 243×
• Hunter v. Burke
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-04-11· cited 34×
• Ashley D. Ramsay v. Starlett J. Custer
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-07-31· cited 32×
• P.E.K. v. J.M.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-04-11· cited 19×
• Toler v. City of Cookeville
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-02-05· cited 14×
• Remington Investments, Inc. v. Ronald S. Obenauf and Ardeth Obenauf
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-04-07· cited 8×
• State v. Gregg
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-09-21· cited 6×
• Pek v. Jm
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-04-11· cited 3×
• In re Estate of Lucas
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-07-08· cited 2×
• Scr-Tech LLC v. Evonik Energy Servs. LLC
  North Carolina Business Court· 2011-07-22· cited 1×
• In the Matter of: Jozie C.A.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-18
• Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Dodson
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-09-29
• Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. R. D. Aldridge
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-01-27
• State of Tennessee, Ex Rel. Markie Jade Laxton v. Samuel Byron Biggerstaff
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-03-05
• Stellena Marie Morelock, individually and as next of kin of Delmus Holmer McCarter v. The Estate of Rhiannon R. Galford and Danny McKee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-09-08
• Devonna Taylor v. Brandicus McKinnie
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-08-05
• TEG Enterprises v. Robert Miller
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-11-14
• State of Tennessee, ex rel. Lelsa L. Parks v. Dennis Parks
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-07-19
• Phillip Russell Lewis v. James Howard Bowen
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-12-01
• Kay Gilliam Dulin v. Michael Jay Dulin
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-06-03