Bernard v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1988
15 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 Hunt v. Hunt · Citizens' Bank & Trust Co. v. Bayles · 3 Smith & H. 373 - Wilkinson v. Johnson City Shale Brick Corp. · Jackson v. Jarratt · Waller v. Skelton
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The oral announcement of the Chancellor and the memorandum of it entered on the motion docket was not action of the Court, which can only be by entry on the minutes and signature of the Chancellor. ‘While in this case the chancellor had announced the decree, still none had been entered and signed. It was still in the breast of the court, and there was nothing of binding force in any sense upon the chancellor or the parties. If the chancellor had died or resigned before the enrollment of a decree, the case would have remained on the docket for trial. The law recognizes nothing as an order or decree until it is upon the minutes of the court.’ Fraker v. Brazelton, 80 Tenn. 278, 280, 281 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Handell““These are the negligence and unexcused delay of Complainant in asserting his alleged claim and injury to the rights of third persons intervening during and therefore on account of the delay.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.