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Byrd v. Hall

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Criticized by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Citation
847 S.W.2d 208
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
122 of 122
Citing cases (total)
2,103
Treatment dates
2015
Criticized by some courts
At least one reviewed court has criticized this case’s reasoning. No reviewed court has overruled it. All 122 flagged citations for Byrd v. Hall have been read, with one confirmed treatment listed below. Rye v. Women’s Care Center of Memphis, MPLLC criticized the confusion engendered by Byrd's burden-shifting discussion and rejected the stricter Byrd/Hannan standard as excessively burdensome, but expressly overruled only Hannan v. Alltel Publishing Co. and left Byrd's materiality and genuine-issue rules intact.
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The other reviewed opinions applied Byrd, reported the statutory or judicial displacement of Hannan, or used nearby treatment language for another authority or appellate issue.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

2,103 later cases cite Byrd v. Hall; 122 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Criticized

  • The court criticized the stricter summary-judgment standard attributed to the Byrd/Hannan line as excessively burdensome, without expressly overruling Byrd or disturbing its materiality and genuine-issue rules.

    Rye v. Women’s Care Center of Memphis, MPLLC · Supreme Court of Tennessee · filed

    Whether the standard began with Byrd or originated in Hannan, we conclude that the standard has shifted the balance too far and imposed on parties seeking summary judgment an almost insurmountable burden of production, as the Court of Appeals’ decision in this case illustrates.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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