Petty v. Sloan

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the rights of “third-party beneficiaries are affected with all the infirmities of the contract as would have been between parties to the contract”
• \In getting at [the parties'] intention we of course do not determine what the state of the mind was of the parties at the time the contract was executed but rather what their intention was as actually embodied and expressed in the instrument as written.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Realty Shop, Inc. v. RR Westminster Holding, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-04-30· cited 383×
• Bob Pearsall Motors, Inc. v. Regal Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-03-03· cited 322×
• Bratton v. Bratton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2004-04-30· cited 210×
• Rainey v. Stansell
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-01-16· cited 150×
• Hamblen County v. City of Morristown
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-08-10· cited 128×
• Hillsboro Plaza Enterprises v. Moon
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-02-24· cited 107×
• Sutton v. First National Bank of Crossville
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-06-23· cited 98×
• Higgins v. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union, Local 3-677
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-06-03· cited 81×
• McGee v. Best
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-06-18· cited 63×
• Jackson v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-03-17· cited 55×
• Honeycutt v. Honeycutt
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-12-12· cited 49×
• Marshall v. Jackson & Jones Oils, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-12-30· cited 47×
• Pitt v. Tyree Organization Ltd.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-02-28· cited 44×
• Bradson Mercantile, Inc. v. Crabtree
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-02-16· cited 44×
• Richland Country Club, Inc. v. CRC Equities, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1991-12-20· cited 44×
• Sikora v. Vanderploeg
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-07-03· cited 42×
• Bill Walker & Associates, Inc. v. Parrish
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-02-10· cited 41×
• Pylant v. Spivey
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-12-31· cited 39×
• Peoples Bank v. Baxter
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1956-08-23· cited 38×
• Estate of Haynes v. Braden
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-02-25· cited 37×