Tenny v. Tenny’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably 139 W. Va. 845 - State Ex Rel. Cooper v. Garvin (1954), 118 So. 2d 833 - Weiss v. Weiss (1960)
25 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 Orr Ex Rel. Walton v. Orr · Holmes v. Atlantic Natl. Bk. of Jacksonville · Heath v. Heath · Mooty v. Mooty · Carlton v. Carlton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any of the causes of divorce set forth in § 65.04 shall exist in favor of the wife, and she be living apart from her husband, she may obtain alimony without seeking a divorce upon complaint filed and suit prosecuted as in other chancery causes; and the court shall have power to grant such temporary and permanent alimony and suit money as the circumstances of the parties may render just; but no alimony shall be granted to an adulterous wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“making and entering orders and decrees affecting or preserving the welfare of children”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.