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Patton's Lessee v. Easton

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
14 U.S. 476
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
2 of 2
Citing cases (total)
2
Treatment dates
1832
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Patton's Lessee v. Easton was overruled: both flagged citations have been read, with the confirmed treatment listed below. The Constitution Annotated lists Green v. Lessee of Neal as overruling Patton.
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Green reversed a judgment based on Patton's construction of Tennessee's seven-year possession statutes and followed the later, settled Tennessee interpretation. Toll v. Wright subsequently reported Green's treatment; its discussion did not independently change Patton's authority.

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 later cases cite Patton's Lessee v. Easton; 2 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

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court displaced Patton's construction of Tennessee's limitations statutes after the state courts settled on a different interpretation, and reversed a judgment that followed Patton.

    Green v. Lessee of Neal · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    As it appears to this court, that the construction of the statutes of limitations is now well settled, differently from what was supposed to be the rule at the time this* court decided the case of Patton’s Lessee v. Easton, and the case of Powell’s Lessee v. Green; and as the instructions of the circuit court were governed by these decisions, and not by the settled law of the state; the judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings.
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