Godfrey v. Ruiz

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that this statute “is clearly intended to eliminate the difficulty encountered by injured parties who are trying to prove that the driver was operating with the owner’s permission at the time of the accident.”
• “[Defendants’] status as interested witnesses places their credibility in question [and] simply fails to rebut the prima facie evidence established by statute”
• “their status as interested witnesses places their credibility in question.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Green v. Green
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2009-08-26· cited 158×
• Rains v. Bend of the River
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-07-31· cited 112×
• Diane DOWNS Ex Rel. Ryan Cody DOWNS v. Mark BUSH Et Al.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-09-10· cited 95×
• Kenyon v. Handal
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-03-10· cited 90×
• City of Cookeville Ex Rel. Cookeville Regional Med. Ctr. v. Humphrey
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2004-02-20· cited 68×
• Lewis v. NewsChannel 5 Network, L.P.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-05-31· cited 53×
• Conley v. Life Care Centers of America, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-01-04· cited 44×
• Boren Ex Rel. Boren v. Weeks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-05-06· cited 44×
• Allen v. McPhee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2007-12-04· cited 40×
• Lee v. Franklin Special School District Board of Education
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-03-29· cited 28×
• Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County v. Cigna Healthcare of Tennessee, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-11-22· cited 27×
• Collins v. AmSouth Bank
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-07-26· cited 24×
• Bennett v. Nissan North America, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-03-27· cited 23×
• Abbott v. Blount County
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2006-11-07· cited 22×
• Holliman v. McGrew
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-02-05· cited 21×
• Tennessee Division of United Daughters of Confederacy v. Vanderbilt University
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-05-03· cited 21×
• Daniel B. Eisenstein v. WTVF-TV, News Channel 5 Network, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-07-30· cited 19×
• Acuity v. McGhee Engineering, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-12-15· cited 16×
• Akins v. Edmondson
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-06-12· cited 15×
• Morris v. Columbia Const. Co., Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-02-04· cited 13×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Byrd v. Hall
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-01-19· cited 2,103×
• Carvell v. Bottoms
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-05-30· cited 837×
• Warren v. Estate of Kirk
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-10-27· cited 291×
• Guy v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2002-07-12· cited 219×
• Downen v. Allstate Insurance Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 167×
• Hamrick v. Spring City Motor Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1986-03-24· cited 54×
• Racy Cream Company v. Walden
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1925-10-31· cited 5×