Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2017
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Evans v. Evans · 35 Tenn. App. 284 - Pendray v. Pendray · Cole v. Addison
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the mother had the right to control the child's whereabouts and the father had no voice where the child should reside and could not make his duty to support the child depend upon the place of the child's abode.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Taylor · Aaby v. Strange“[t]he mere fact that the decree grants the other parent the right of visitation does not implicitly prohibit the removal of the child from the jurisdiction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Taylor · Aaby v. Strange“The father ... [alleges] in effect that he has the right to fix the residence of the children in Tennessee, and in turn, to force the mother to leave her second husband and return to Tennessee with the children and thereby destroy her second marriage.... He bases his demand that they return to Tennessee solely on his personal desire, without regard for the welfare of the children, or the right of the mother to pursue her own happiness and live with her second husband and fulfill her obligations and marital vows to him, which the law requires her to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Taylor
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.